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VALENTINE G. HALL 

Author "Lawn Tbnnis in America and England," 

Secretary United States National Lawn Tennis Association 



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AMERICA. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF ALL THE PROMINENT PLAYERS. SUM- 
MARY OF TOURNAMENTS IN '85, '86, '87, WITH FULL SCORES AND 
RESULTS OF ALL TOURNAMENTS IN '88. HINTS ON THE MAN- 
AGEMENT OF TOURNAMENTS. REVIEW OF THE SEASON 
IN ENGLAND, CLASSIFICATION OF THE PLAYERS FOR 
1888, KNOTTY POINTS, AND ALL THE LATEST RULES 
AND DIRECTIONS GOVERNING HANDICAPS, UM- 
PIRES, AND RULES FOR PLAYING, 



VALENTINE G. HALL, 

Author "Lawn Tennis in America and England," 

Secretary United States National Lawn Tennis Association. 



NEW YORK 

D. W. GRANBERY & CO. 
189 BROADWAY 







Copyright, i88q, by 
VALENTINE G. HALL. 



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PREFACE. 



From boyhood — not so very many years ago — I have 
taken great delight in the game of lawn tennis. I have 
observed with great interest the rapid progress which 
the game has made in popular favor. It has been my 
pleasure to attend many of the tournaments referred to 
in the following pages, and to meet the leading players 
who are described therein. My notes have gradually 
accumulated, and have given me some busy, pleasant 
hours. It has occurred to me that many of the large 
and growing numbers of both sexes with whom tennis 
is popular might find these pages of some interest, and 
not without value. It has not been my purpose to 
write a history of tennis, or to attempt to instruct play- 
ers — my knowledge is not sufficient for such things. If 
lovers of tennis find my pages of interest for pleasant 
reminiscence, or for reference, or for comparison with 
the work at the net, I shall be satisfied. I have de- 
voted the first part of the book to biographical sketches 
of six of the most prominent players in America, to- 
gether with accounts of all the important tournaments 
in this country held during 1885 to 1887, inclusive. 

Following this is an account of the Renshaw broth- 
ers, together with a description of the championship 
matches and principal tournaments of Europe. 

I have added a table which shows the rank of the 
more prominent players abroad. The third part of the 



iv PREFACE. 

book contains the most approved directions and rules 
for playing lawn tennis. 

Among the many friends who have placed me under 
obligations to them in the preparation of these pages, I 
wish to make special mention of Mr. H. W. Slocum, Jr. 

V. G. H. 

New York, March, 1888. 



The favorable reception given to ''Lawn Tennis in 
America and England;' published last year, prompts 
the writer to issue this volume. 

The author gratefully acknowledges his indebtedness 
to friends whose names appear with the valuable articles 
they contributed ; also to Mr. G. S. Smith, to whom he 
is indebted for invaluable help in preparing the article 
on the St. Augustine Tournament; also to an unknown 
English writer for the capital hints on the management 
of tournaments. , 

Special care has been taken to make the Rules and 
Directions for the game as complete as possible. The 
Summary of the Tournaments for the past four years, 
with the full scores of those of 1888 ; the Constitution 
and By-Laws of the United States National Lawn Tennis 
Association, with a list of the clubs — and their secre- 
taries — belonging to this Association, and a full index ; 
these are some of the features which, it is believed, will 
make the book interesting and helpful to all lovers of 
lawn tennis. 

V. G. H. 

New York, May, 1889. 



CONTENTS. 



Part First, 

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 
TOURNAMENTS IN AMERICA. 
SUMMARY OF 1885, 1886, 1887. 

FULL SCORES AND RESULTS OF ALL TOURNAMENTS 

IN 1888. 

TOURNAMENT WINNERS FOR 1888. 
CHAMPIONSHIPS, 1888. 



Part Second. 

HINTS ON THE MANAGEMENT OF TOURNAMENTS. 
SOMETHING ABOUT AMATEURS. 
AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIPS. 
THE DECLINE OF THE DOUBLE GAME. 
VICTORIES OF RICHARD D. SEARS. 
CLASSIFICATION OF THE PLAYERS FOR 1S88. 
REVIEW OF THE SEASON IN ENGLAND. 
KNOTTY POINTS. 



VI CONTENTS. 

Part TJiird. 

THE ST. AUGUSTINE LAWN TENNIS TOURNAMENT, 

COURT TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP OF U. S. 

RULES FOR HANDICAPPING. 

THE BAGNALL-WILD SYSTEM. 

RULES FOR UMPIRES. 

CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES 
NATIONAL LAWN .TENNIS ASSOCIATION. 

DIRECTIONS AND RULES FOR PLAYING. 

LIST OF CLUBS BELONGING TO THE UNITED STATES 
NATIONAL LAWN TENNIS ASSOCIATION. 

FIXTURES FOR 1889. 

INDEX. 



Illustrations . 

Miss ADELINE K. ROBINSON, page 16. 
Dr. JAMES DWIGHT, page 32. 
RICHARD D. SEARS, page 44. 
HOWARD A. TAYLOR, page 58. 
JOSEPH S. CLARK, page 68. 
HENRY W. SLOCUM, Jr., page 80. 
R. LIVINGSTON BEECKMAN. page 98. 
OLIVER S. CAMPBELL, page 112. 
A. H. S. POST, page 122. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Tennis is one of the oldest of ball games. Even 
among the Greeks and the Romans games something 
like tennis were in great favor. 

In the early centuries there was no racket ; the ball 
was struck with the hand ; then, some four or five hun- 
dred years ago, it began to be the custom to protect the 
hand with a heavy glove ; and then came the introduc- 
tion of the racket. 

Tennis is the older name, and rackets the more mod- 
ern. Both these names have come to us through the 
French ; the one, tennis, from tenez (from the Latin 
tenere^ to hold), take it, the word called out when the 
ball was struck ; the other, rackets, from an old French 
word, rachete, meaning the palm of the hand, and de- 
rived from an Arabic word. Lawn tennis is a delight- 
ful modification of this favorite old game. Its great 
advantages are at once apparent. The open air, the 
cheerful sunshine, the fresh, elastic turf, the compara- 
tively small expense, are among the advantages which 
make us hail with joy the growing popularity of lawn 
tennis. The game is simple and attractive even to the 
beginner, while the best player is ever more sensitive to 
the increasing demand for greater skill, better judgment, 
and more perfect command of the body. Lawn tennis 
affords, to a remarkable extent, all that a good recrea- 
tion demands, namely, good exercise for the body and 



Vlll INTRODUCTION. 

enough excitement to call the mind entirely away from 
its ordinary work, to hold the attention without taxing 
the powers of thought. Lawn tennis clubs are spring- 
ing into existence all over the country. Many of these 
own beautiful grounds and club houses, which furnish 
to the members and their friends a delightful rendez- 
vous, and every facility for the cultivation of good ten- 
nis. These organizations are adding greatly to the 
pleasure, interest, and popularity of the game. Tourna- 
ments are a pleasing feature of the tennis season ; they 
are a great incentive to faithful practice ; they promote 
a friendly rivalry ; they call together the best players ; 
and they furnish delightful entertainments to throngs 
of interested spectators. Surely a game so beautiful 
and healthful, a recreation so harmless and perfect, 
ought to grow in favor and deserves to be cherished. 

These pages, which contain the records of many a 
well-fought battle, are affectionately inscribed to all 
lovers of lawn tennis by the writer, 

V. G. H. 

New York, March, 1888. 



LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 



PART FIRST. 
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 



RICHARD D. SEARS. 

Mr. Sears was born in Boston, in the year 1862. His 
lawn-tennis experience has been an extensive one. In 
1879 h^ first learned how to use a racket, and since that 
date has been more than successful in this pastime, which 
has made him so well known throughout the country. 
It is needless to name the many victories achieved by 
this gentleman. Suffice it to say that, in 1880, he won 
the championship at Newport, and held this title until 
last season, when sickness prevented him from playing. 
He and his partner, Mr. Dwight, have made an excellent 
double team, and, both in America and England, have 
scored many victories. It is hoped that Mr. Sears will 
return this summer to the field in which he is so popular. 

HENRY W. SLOCUM, Jr. 

Mr. Slocum is a graduate of Yale, 'S3, and the son of 
General Slocum, of Brooklyn, is twenty-seven years of 
age, and five feet ten inches in height. Mr. Slocum's 
career as a tennis player has certainly been a remarkable 
one. His endurance, his strength and perseverance, have 



2 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

made him to-day the champion of America — a position 
which only one man can hold, but one which many strive 
eagerly to gain each season. Mr. Slocum began playing 
in '84, but really entered few prominent tournaments, 
until the spring of 'S6. From this date on his victories 
have been numerous, and last summer he won the cham- 
pionship of America. His collection of prizes numbers 
about eighty, and is very handsome. 

OLIVER S. CAMPBELL. 

Mr. Campbell is the youngest of all the prominent 
players, and for this reason his record of last summer is 
a wonderful one.> He played in all the prominent tour- 
naments, meeting such players as Beeckman, Taylor, 
Clark, Slocum, and many others. In the championship 
tournament at Newport, he won second place, and at 
Staten Island, in the fall, he was one of the champions 
in the doubles. At the Southern tournament, held at 
St. Augustine, in March last, he won the doubles, and 
ran off with the handsome cup in the singles. 

He is in his junior year at Columbia College, and there- 
fore has several years yet in which to add to his laurels. 

R. LIVINGSTON BEECKMAN. 

Mr. Beeckman, during the summer of '86, was the 
next best tennis player to Mr. Sears that America owned. 
His victories were numerous. Orange, Hastings, Lenox, 
Hoboken, Newport — everywhere he played — he seemed 
to be victorious. Then, suddenly, owing to business 
engagements, his practice was abandoned, and little by 
little he fell behind, so that to-day there are many play- 



LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 3 

ers who are much better than he. With practice, how- 
ever, Mr. Beeckman could easily recover his old form, 
and it is hoped that the coming summer will see him 
once more fighting in tournaments against old and famil- 
iar rivals. 

E. P. MACMULLEN. 

Mr. MacMullen, during the past few seasons, has 
come well under the eye of those interested in the game 
of tennis, on account of his brilliant playing, both as a 
single and double player. In 'Zj, at Livingston, Staten 
Island, he defeated Mr. Taylor, and since that time many 
victories have fallen to him. Last spring he defeated Mr. 
Taylor, in the tournament held at St. George's, for the 
championship of the Middle States, and then met Mr. 
Beeckman, holder of the cup, easily defeating him. Mr. 
MacMullen with his partner, Mr. Hobart, make a strong 
team. He is a member of the New York Lawn-Tennis 
Club. 

HOWARD A. TAYLOR. 

Mr. Taylor is a graduate of Harvard, in the Class of 
'85, and lawn tennis has been his favorite amusement for 
a number of summers. During his college course, he won 
several tournaments, and showed signs of making a 
strong player. Mr. Taylor has been very unfortunate in 
playing at the championship matches at Newport for the 
past three seasons ; he has reached the final round, and 
there he seems to stay. His victories have been many, 
and his prizes show that some eighty tournaments have 
been won by him. Mr. Taylor is just twenty-four years 
of age, and a very successful lawyer. 



4 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

DR. JAMES DWIGHT. 

Dr. Dwight Is the oldest of the crack players, and 
was one of the first who introduced the game into this 
country. His style of playing is very similar to that of 
the English players. Dr. Dwight spends most of his 
summers in England. His playing abroad is said to be 
much finer than in America, as the climate here inter- 
feres greatly with his powers of endurance. Many valu- 
able hints on the game have been given to us by this 
gentleman, and the only thing which is a regret to all 
tennis players is that Dr. Dwight spends so much of his 
time away from us on the other side. There is little 
need to sing the praises of Dr. Dwight, he is so well 
known, and a favorite everywhere. 

JOSEPH S. CLARK. 

Mr. Clark, a rising young lawyer of Philadelphia, has 
been ranked as one of the first five players of this coun- 
try, for a number of years. Mr. Clark is a graduate of 
Harvard, in the Class of '83, and, during his collegiate 
course, had the advantage of playing tennis daily with 
his friend, Mr. Sears. He defeated this gentleman in 
the intercollegiate tournament in the fall of '82, and 
many a battle has been fought between these two cham- 
pions. Mr. Clark has won tournaments at Lenox, 
Wenthworth, Nahant, New Haven, Longwood, and 
many other noted grounds. He is well known for his 
generous feelings towards his opponent when playing in 
a match, which is a point that shows the true gentleman. 



LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 5 

PHILIP S. SEARS. 

Mr. Sears, the brother of the ex-champion, R. D. 
Sears, graduates from Harvard College, this year, '89. 
He has been very successful ever since he first began to 
play, and by steady practice, and with the aid of a broth- 
er's careful coaching, Mr. Sears has worked to the place 
of the sixth best player in America. He won the inter- 
collegiate championship in the fall of '%'j, and with his 
partner, Mr. Shaw, the doubles. In '88, he retained 
these honors, won in '87, in the singles, but lost the 
doubles. The tournament arranged each year at Na- 
hant, on the grounds of Mr. Sears, is a pleasant feature 
of the tennis season, and are specially interesting, as only 
eight of the best players are invited, each man playing 
every other man. 

WILLIAM L. THACHER. 

Mr. Thacher was the crack player of New Haven 
for several seasons, representing Yale in the intercollegi- 
ate tournament, and the New Haven Lawn-Tennis Club, 
in the open tournament given by this Club each season 
in June, for the championship of the New England 
States. Last summer, Mr. Thacher was but little before 
the public, owing to his being away the greater part of 
the season, traveling in the West. In the spring of '8/, 
it will be remembered that he with with his partner, Mr. 
Beach, defeated Mr. Sears and Mr. Slocum, who were 
thought to be invincible. It is hoped that Mr. Thacher 
will find more time this summer, so that he can partici- 
pate in the tournaments. 



6 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

VALENTINE G. HALL. 

Mr. Hall is a graduate of Columbia College, in the 
Class of '88, and has decided to follow the law for a pro- 
fession. Mr. Hall is twenty-one years of age, and has 
been playing tennis for the •past six years. But it was 
not until the season of '86, that he entered any prominent 
tournaments. He has met with fair success in singles, 
but has done his best Avork in doubles. Mr. Hall and 
Mr. Campbell are the present champions in doubles, hav- 
ing won first place at the championship meeting, held 
last fall, at Staten Island. Some fifty prizes bear pleas- 
ing testimony of Mr. Hall's prowess in the tennis field. 

CHARLES E. SANDS. 

Mr. Sands has been seen in many prominent tourna- 
ments during the past few seasons, and although he has 
not won many, his playing has shown that, if he would 
only give the proper time to practicing, he could make a 
strong player. His strokes are graceful, easy, and well 
judged, his back-hand wrist strokes being especially fine. 
Mr. Sands is a graduate of Columbia College, in the Class 
of '87, and during his college course was in one way and 
another always connected with some kind of sport. 

QUINCY A. SHAW, Jr. 

Mr. Shaw is a Haryard fellow, and in his Sophomore 
Year. His lawn-tennis j:)laying, during the past few sea- 
sons, has attracted a vast amount of attention. Mr. 
Shaw is a left-handed player, and drives extremely hard, 
and with great accuracy. He is particularly good both 
in smashing, and serving. Mr. Shaw and Mr. P. Scars 



LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. *J 

make a very strong double team. In '87, they won the 
intercollegiate, and during last summer they were vic- 
torious at Wellesley, Lenox, and Wenth worth. Mr. 
Shaw is very graceful when playing, and if he could over- 
come a little tendency to carelessness, he would make 
one of our best players. 

FRED. MANSFIELD. 

Mr. Mansfield, out of a tournament, stands to-day 
as high as any player America can boast of ; but as soon 
as a tournament is begun, Mr. Mansfield seems to lose 
his pluck, and get extremely rattled. In Boston, Mr. 
Mansfield is thought the world of, and any question 
about courts, or disputes in playing, are always left for 
him to decide. His tennis career has been a very suc- 
cessful one, and all over the country he is well known. 

CHARLES A. CHASE. 

Mr. Chase, the western champion, and a graduate of 
Amherst College, won for himself a high reputation as a 
lawn-tennis player, during the summers of '85, and '86. 
Then for a season Mr. Chase remained very quiet, many 
thinking he had decided to give up the game, and retire. 
But this was not the case, as last summer he figured 
very prominently in all of the principal tournaments, 
winning at Wenthworth, Nahant, Chicago, and at New- 
port he gave Slocum a very hard battle. Mr. Chase 
ranks about fourth. 

G. M. BRINLEY. 

Mr. Brinley, although seen now-a-days but little in 
the tennis field, deserves a word of mention here for his 



8 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

excellent tennis in days gone by. At one time Mr. 
Brinley, in my estimation, was the leading player of 
America. His strokes were beautiful, his wrist motion 
easy and graceful, and his eye perfect in its accuracy. 
The only quality he lacked was strength, which, in a 
long match, always went back on him. Mr. Brinley is a 
graduate of Trinity College, and an excellent fellow. 

A. H. S. POST. 

Mr. Post, champion of. the Southern Lawn-Tennis 
Association, began playing in '86, and was beaten in the 
finals that year by Mr. Bonsai, who was then the crack 
player of the club. Mr. Post, however, had his revenge 
on Mr. Bonsai in the spring of 'Sy, for at the annual tour- 
nament, of the Baltimore Cricket Club, he defeated this 
gentleman in the finals. In the fall of '87, Mr. Post did 
not play for the championship, Mr. Bonsai winning it. 
In '88 Mr. Post won the tournament of the Southern 
Lawn Tennis Association, meeting every man who had 
any chance of winning. Then meeting Mr. Bonsai, holder 
of the cup, and champion, he defeated him in three 
straight sets — and in fact throughout the tournament 
lost but one set, which was won by Mr. LeMoyne, in the 
first round. Mr. Post is undoubtedly one of the most 
promising of the young players, and the development of 
his skill will be watched with interest. 

AMONG OTHER CRACKS. 

If space would allow me, I should like to discuss the 
excellent qualities of the following well-known players : 
H. M. Sears, A. E. Wright, A. L. Williston, T. S. Tall- 
er, P. S. Presbrey, G. W. Lee, W. Post, H. S. LeRoy, 
W. Berry, M. S. Paton, C. Hobart, and E. L. Hall. 



TOURNAMENTS OF 1885. 
SUMMARY. 



Seventh Regiment, January i. — Singles : H. G. 
Trevor. Doubles : R. L. Major and W. P. Wurts. 

The Tennis Building, February 22. — Doubles : Her- 
man S. Le Roy and T. Maitland. 

Longwood Cricket Club, May 18. — Singles: H. A. 
Taylor. 

Harvard College, May 20. — Singles : Hopkins. 

Princeton College, May 25. — Singles : A. Larkins. 

Young America Cricket Club, May 26. — Singles : J. 
S. Clark. 

Scarlet Ribbon Club, May 30. — Singles : J. W. 
Corwith. 

East Orange Club, May 30. — Singles : P. Lyman. 

St. George Cricket Club, June 10. — Singles: R. D. 
Sears. Doubles : R. D. Sears and J. S. Clark. 

Orange Lawn Tennis Club, June 17. — Singles : R. L. 
Beeckman. Doubles : W. V. S. Thorn and R. L. Beeck- 
man. 

Far-and-Near Lawn Tennis Club, June 23. — Singles : 
R. L. Beeckman. Doubles : H. A. Taylor and R. L. 
Beeckman. 

Litchfield Lawn Tennis Club, July 20. — Singles : H. 
W. Slocum, Jr. Doubles: H. W. Slocum, Jr., and G. 
W. Richards. 

Wright and Ditson's Lawn Tennis Tournament, New- 
castle, August 4. — Singles : W. V. R. Berry. Doubles : 
P. W. Knapp and H. W. Slocum, Jr. 



10 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

Toronto Lawn Tennis Club, August 6. — Singles: J. 
S. Clark. Doubles: W. E. Glyn and W. Bucknall. 

Narragansett Pier, August ii. — Singles: W. V. R. 
Berry. Doubles: R. L. Beeckman and H. A. Tay- 
lor. 

The Championship Tournament, Newport, August 
i^,— Singles : G. M. Brinley. Doubles: R. D. Sears 
and J. S. Clark. 

The Edgewood Tennis Club, September 5. — Singles : 
V. G. Hall. 

Buffalo Lawn Tennis Tournament, September 7. — 
Singles : A. L. Plummer. 

Lenox Lawn Tennis Club, September 8. — Singles: 
W. V. R. Berry. Doubles: H. W. Slocum, Jr., and W. 
V. R. Berry. 

Fall Tournament Orange Lawn Tennis Club, Sep- 
tember 23. — Singles : H. W. Slocum, Jr. Doubles: M. 
S. Paton and H. W. Slocum, Jr. 

Harvard College Tournament, September 26. — 
Singles'. P. S. Sears. Doubles: P. S. and H. Sears. 

Country Club Tournament, September 29. — Singles : 
R. L. Beeckman. Doubles: H. W. Slocum, Jr., and R. 
L. Beeckman. 

Staten Island Tennis Tournament, October 3. — 
Ladies Singles : Miss Leslie. Ladies Doubles : Miss 
Miller and Miss Leslie. Ladies and Ge?itlenie7is Doubles : 
Miss Kitty Smith and Mr. R. L. Beeckman. 

Inter-collegiate Tennis Tournament, October 15. — 
Singles: P. W. Knapp. Doubles: P. W. Knapp and 
H. W. Shipman. 



LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. II 



The Respective Rank in which the Players zvere Classified 
for the Season ending 1885. 

I, Sears; 2, Dwight ; 3, Berry; 4, Brinley; 5, Clark; 
6, Moffat; 7, Beeckman ; 8, Taylor; 9, Mansfield; 10, 
Knapp ; ii,Slocum; 12, Van Rensselaer. (Pettitt, the 
professional, is inferior to the first two players.) 



TOURNAMENTS OF 1886. 
SUMMARY. 



Tennis Building Tournament, February 22. — Doubles: 
H. W. Slocum, Jr., and G. W. Richards. 

Harvard University, June i, etc. — Singles: Cham- 
pionship, Mr. P. S. Sears ; All Comers, Mr. D. K. Snow. 
Doubles : Messrs. P. S. and H. M. Sears. 

Young America Cricket Club, June 4, etc. — Singles : 
Mr. R. L. Beeckman. Doubles : Messrs. R. D. Sears 
and A. Moffat. 

St. George's Cricket Club, June 9, etc. — Singles : Mr. 
R. L. Beeckman. Doubles : Messrs. Beeckman and Slo- 
cum. 

Orange Lawn Tennis Club, June 16, etc. — Singles : 
Mr. R. L. Beeckman. Doubles : Messrs. Beeckman and 
Slocum. 

Far-and-Near, June 23, etc. — Singles : Mr. R. L. Beeck- 
man. Doubles: Messrs. Beeckman and Slocum. 



12 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

New Jersey Association, June 28, ttc.—Singles : Mr. 
R. F. Conover. Doubles: Messrs. Conover and Halsey. 

Scarlet Ribbon Lawn Tennis Club, July 3, etc—Sin- 
gles: Mr. C. Chase. Doubles : Messrs. C. and S. Chase. 

New Haven Lawn Tennis Club, July 6, etc.—Stngles : 
Mr. H. W. Slocum, Jr. Doubles : Messrs. Slocum and 
Thacher. 

Minnesota Lawn Tennis Club, July 6, Qtc.—Singles : 

Mr. L. P. Ordway. 

North Conway, July 26, etc—Singles: Mr. L. Pad- 
dock. Doubles: Messrs. Paddock and Hurd. 

Rockaway, July 28, etc.— 5^>/^/^^ / Mr. H. W. Slo- 
cum, Jr. 

Wentworth, August 3, etc— Singles : Mr. J. S. Clark. 
Doubles: Messrs. J. S. Clark and H. A. Taylor. 

Seabright Cricket Club, August 3, etc— Singles : Mr. 
H. W. Bucknell. Doubles : Messrs. Elliot and Smith. 

Cooperstown Lawn Tennis Club, August 5, etc.— 
Singles: Mr. V. G. Hall. Mixed Doubles: Mr. V. G. 
Hall and Miss G. Carter. 

Nahant, August 10, etc— Singles : Mr. H. A.Taylor. 
Doubles : Messrs. Beeckman and Slocum. 

Bar Harbor, August 11, etc— Singles : Mr. J. S. 
Clark. Doubles (handicap): Messrs. J. S. Clark and 
W. V. R. Berry. 

Newport, August 23, etc. — Championship, Mr. R. D. 
Sears ; All Comers, Mr. R. L. Beeckman ; Runner-up, 
Mr. H. A. Taylor. Doubles : Messrs. Sears and Dwight. 

Lenox, September 7, etc— Singles : Mr. R. L. 
Beeckman. Doubles : Messrs. Beeckman and Slocum. 

Rochester, September 7, etc— Singles : Mr. G. M. 
Brinley. Doubles : Messrs. Brinley and Mackenzie. 

Harrisburg, September 8, etc. — Singles: Mr. F. 
Wiestling. Doubles: Messrs. Etter and Fleming. 



LAWN TENNIS IN 'AMERICA. 1 3 

Delaware Tennis Club, September 9, etc. — Singles : 
Mr. C. B. Davis. Doubles : Messrs. Cowperthwait and 
Remak. 

Orange Lawn Tennis Club, September 15, etc. — 
Singles: Mr. G. M. Brinley. Doubles: Messrs. Sears 
and Dwight. 

Edgewood Lawn Tennis Club, September 18, etc. — 
Singles : Mr. V. G. Hall. Doubles: Messrs. C. E. Sands 
and V. G. Hall. 

West Chester, September 21. — Singles: Mr. H. A. 
Taylor. 

Merion Cricket Club, September 28. — Singles : Mr. 
W. L. Landreth. Doubles: Messrs. Landreth and 
Thomson. 

Baltimore Cricket Club, October 4, etc. — Singles: 
Mr. Leigh Bonsai. Doubles : Messrs. L. Bonsai and S. 
T. Steel. 

Longwood, October 5 (handicap). — Singles : Mr. 
Quincy Shaw. Doubles : Messrs. P. S. and H. M. Sears. 

University of Pennsylvania, October 7. — Doubles: 
Messrs. A. G. Thomson and W. Scott. 

Inter-collegiate, October 12. — Singles: Mr. G. M. 
Brinley, Trinity College. Doubles: Messrs. W. P. 
Knapp and W. L. Thacher, Yale University. 

Seventh Regiment Tournament, December 25. — Sin- 
gles : Mr. V. G. Hall. Doubles: Messrs. Hall and Trevor. 

The Respective Rank in which the Players were Classified 
for the season ending 1886. 

I, Sears; 2, Dwight; 3, Beeckman ; 4, Taylor; 5, 
Clark; 6, Slocum ; 7, Brinley; 8, Mansfield; 9, Moffat; 



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I give the above table, thinking it may prove of inter- 
est to my readers. The percentage of the five leading 
players for the season of 1886, barring Mr. Sears and Dr. 
Dwight, was as follows: Beeckman, .727; Clark, .714; 
Taylor, .636; Brinley, .250; and Slocum .206. 



TOURNAMENTS OF 1887. 
SUMMARY. 



Tennis Building Association, February 22. — Doubles: 
H. W. Slocum, Jr., and G. Richards. Second Prize : V. 
G. Hall and H. G. Trevor. 

Young America Cricket Club (Invitation), May 27. — 
Singles : Howard A. Taylor. Doubles : H. W. Slocum, 
Jr., and H. A. Taylor. 

Cambridge : Harvard University Spring Tourna- 
ment, May 29. — Singles : G. W. Lee. Championship 
Round, P. S. Sears. Doubles: P. S. and H. M. 
Sears. 

Hoboken : St. George Cricket Club (Open Champion- 
ship of the Middle States), June 2. — Singles: R. L. 
Beeckman. Doubles : No doubles played. 

New Haven : New Haven Lawn Tennis Club (Open 
Championship of New England), June 13. — Singles : H. 
W. Slocum, Jr. Doubles: W. L. Thacher and F. G. 
Beach. 

Orange : Orange Lawn Tennis Club (Open Tourna- 
ment), June 22. — Singles : O. S. Campbell. Doubles: V. 
G. Hall and O. S. Campbell. 

Chicago : Chicago Lawn Tennis Club (Open Champion- 
ship of the Western States), July 4. — Singles: Charles 
A. Chase. Doubles: B. F. Cummins and E. W. Mc- 
Clellan. 

Livingston : Staten Island Cricket Club (Invitation), 
July 5. — Singles: H. W. Slocum, Jr. Doubles: No 
doubles played. 

Westchester : Westchester Lawn Tennis Club (Invita- 



l6 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

tion), July ii. — Singles: H. W. Slocum, Jr. Doubles: 
No doubles played. 

Elberon : Elberon Lawn Tennis Club (Open Tourna- 
ment), July 21. — Singles: R. L. Beeckman. Doubles : K. 
L. Beeckman and H. A. Taylor. 

Toronto, Canada : Toronto Lawn Tennis Club (Open 
Championship of Canada), July 26. — Singles : W. 
H. Hyman. Doubles: A. and H. Torrance. 

Southampton : Meadow Lawn Tennis Club (Open 
Championship of Long Island), July 26. — Singles : H. A. 
Taylor. Doubles : H. W. Slocum, Jr., and H. A. 
Taylor. 

New Castle : Wentworth Open Tournament (Wright 
and Ditson's), August 2. — Siiigles : H. \V. Slocum, 
Jr. Doubles: J. S. Clark and G. M. Brinley. 

Nahant : Nahant Lawn Tennis Tournament (Invita- 
tion), August 8. — Singles: H. W. Slocum, Jr. Doubles: 
No doubles played. 

Bar Harbor: Bar Harbor Open Tournament, August 
16. — Si?tgles: R. L. Beeckman. Doubles (handicap): 
A. G. and W. S. Thomson. 

Newport : Open Singles' Championship of America, 
August 22. — Win7ier: R. D. Sears. All Coiners: H. W. 
Slocum, Jr. Rtmner-up : H. A. Taylor. 

Southampton: Meadow Club Tennis Tournament 
(Club Tournament), August 25. — Singles: C. Howland. 
Doubles: no doubles played. 

Tivoli: Edgewood Lawn Tennis Club, August 29. — 
Singles: V. G. Hall. Doubles: V. G. Hall and E. L. Hall. 

Orange : Open Double Championship of America, 
September 6. — JVinners: R. D. Sears and-James Dwight. 
Runners-up: H. W. Slocum, Jr., and H. A. Taylor. 

Livingston : Staten Island Cricket Club (ClubTourna- 



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ment), September 9. — Singles: G. A. Willis. Doubles: 

B. Robinson and E. W. Gould. 

Brooklyn: Brooklyn Hill Lawn Tennis Club (Open 
Tournament), September 12. — Singles: O. S. Campbell. 
Doubles: W. W. Mackay and F. F. Prosser. 

Lenox: Lenox Open Tournament, September 13. — 
Singles: J. S. Clark. Doubles: J. S. Clark and H. W. 
Slocum, Jr. 

Rochester: Rochester Lawn Tennis Club (Open 
Tournament), September 13. — Singles: W. L. Kingsley. 
Doubles: W. L. and G. L. Kingsley. 

Elmwood : Belmont Cricket Club (Club Handicap 
Tournament), September 19. — Singles: M. D. Smith. 
Doubles: M. D. Smith and W. D. Goforth. Ladies' Sin- 
gles: Miss B. Townsend. Ladies Doubles: Miss B. Town- 
send and Miss M. L. Ballard. Mixed Doubles: Miss 
N. F. Hansel and Mr. M. C. Work. 

New Hamburg : New Hamburg Lawn Tennis Club 
(Invitation Tournament), September 20. — Singles: V. G. 
Hall. Doubles: J. F. Bacon and C. E. Sands. Ladies 
Singles: Miss May Colby. Ladies Doubles: Miss Ellen 

C. and G. W. Roosevelt. 

New York : New York Lawn Tennis Club (Open 
Tournament), September 21. — Singles: C. Hobart. 
Ladies Singles: Miss Smallwood. Ladies Doubles: 
Miss A. Robinson and Miss Clarke. 

Wilmington : Delaware Field Club (Open Tourna- 
ment), September 26. — Singles : C. B. Davis. Doubles: 
C. B. Davis and A. G. Thomson. 

Wissahickon : Philadelphia Cricket Club (Open 
Tournament), September 27. — Ladies Singles: Miss 
N. F. Hansel. Ladies Doubles: Miss Hansel and Miss 
Knight. Mixed Doubles: Miss Stokes and Mr. J. S. 



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Clark. Gentlenmis Doubles : J. S. Clark and M. Field- 
ing- 
Livingston: Ladies' Out-door Sports Club (Open 

Tournament), October ^.—Ladies Singles : Miss Adelaide 
Robinson. Ladies' Doubles: Miss A. Robinson and 
Miss K. Smith. Mixed Doubles: Miss A. Robinson 
and Mr. H. W. Slocum, Jr. 

New Haven (Annual Inter-Collegiate Tournament) : 
October II.— 52;/^/^^'.- P. S. Sears, Harvard Univer- 
sity. Doubles: P. S. Sears and Q. A. Shaw, Jr., Harvard 
University. Second Prize: Singles: O. S. Campbell, 
Columbia. Second Prize : Doubles : V. G. Hall and O. 
S. Campbell, Columbia. 

Hastings-on-Hudson : Far-and-Near Lawn Tennis Club 
(Club Tournament), October i^.— Ladies Singles : Miss 
Adelaide Robinson. Second Prize : Miss Ellen C. Roose- 
velt. Ladies Doubles: Miss A. Robinson and Miss K. 
Smith. Second Prize : Miss May Colby and Miss Small- 
wood. Mixed Doubles : Miss A. Robinson and Mr. B. 
Robinson. Second Prize : Miss May Colby and Mr. H. 
G. Trevor. 

Delaware : Delaware Field Lawn Tennis Tournament, 
October 17. — Ladies Singles: Miss Townsend. Mixed 
Doubles: Mr. Work and Miss Townsend. 

Cambridge : Harvard University Championship, Octo- 
ber \g.— Singles : P. S. Sears. Doubles: D. K. Snow 
and T. S. Tailer. 

The Respective Rank in which the Players were Classified 
for the Season enditig 1887. 

I, Sears; 2, Slocum; 3, Beeckman ; 4, Taylor; 5, 
Clark; 6, Mansfield; 7, P. S. Sears; 8, Brinley ; 9, Mac- 
Mullen; 10, Shaw; 11, Campbell; 12, Hall. 



TOURNAMENTS OF i88S. 



Sixth Annual Tournament of the Tennis Biiilding Associ- 
ation^ February 22, 1888. 

First Round : Doubles : R. Stevens and A. W. Post, 
a bye; C. E. Sands and H. S. Leroy, a bye; F. M. Mans- 
field and W. L. Kingsley, a bye; P. D. Chase and H. P. 
Tailer beat E. H. Coffey and H. G. Trevor, 4-6, 6-5, 
6-4; A. R. Pish and W. K. Fowler beat E. Hall and A. 
Wheeler, 6-5, 6-1; G. A. Smith and G. L. Kingsley beat 
\V. R. Stewart and W. B. Henry, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2; C. 
Hobart and E. P. MacMullen, beat J. W. Raymond and 
C. J. Post, Jr., 6-4, 5-6, 6-5; V. G. Hall and O. S. Camp- 
bell beat H. W. Slocum, Jr., and H. B. Colton, 6-4, 6-3. 
Second Round : Sands and Le Roy beat Stevens and 
Post, 6-2, 6-2; Mansfield and Kingsley beat Chase and 
Tailer, 6-3, 6-4; Smith and Kingsley beat Fish and 
Fowler, 6-5, 6-2; Hobart and MacMullen beat Hall and 
Campbell, 1-6, 6-5, 6-3. Third Round : Sands and 
Le Roy beat Mansfield and Kingsley, 4-6, 6-1, 6-2; Smith 
and Kingsley beat Hobart and MacMullen, 6-4, 5-6, 6-3. 
Final Round : C. E. Sands and H. S. Le Roy beat G. 
A. Smith and G. L. Kingsley, 6-2, 6-1. 



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TJie Flushing Athletic Club Lawn Tennis Totirfiament, 

May 24, 1888. 

Preliminary Round: Singles : Clarence Hobart beat 
W. V/. Reese, 6-2, 6-1; Richard Stevens beat J. V. Gra- 
ham, Jr., 6-2, 6-5; W. V. Draper beat F. A. Kellog, 6-3, 
6-3; V. G. Hall beat R. H. Elliott, by default; O. S. 
Campbell beat D. W. Raymond, 1-6, 6-4, 6-5; J. F. 
Hobart, H. L. Bogert, and A. W. Post, drew byes. First 
Round : Bogert beat Hobart, 6-5, 3-6, 6-4; Hobart beat 
Stevens, 6-2, 6-4; Hall beat Draper, 6-1, 6-4; Post beat 
Campbell, 6-5, 6-5. Second Round, Hobart beat Bogert, 
6-0, 6-0; Post beat Hall, 6-0, 6-4. Final Round, A. W. 
Post beat C. Hobart, 6-1, 1-6, 7-5, 6-1. For second 
place, O. S. Campbell beat C. Hobart, 6-2, 1-6, 7-5, 6-1. 

Ladies' Singles : First Round : Miss Lynch beat Miss 
Bogert, 6-1, 4-6, 6-2; Miss Ward beat Miss Mann, 6-1, 
6-5. Final Round, Miss Lynch beat Miss Ward after a 
hard fight, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3. 

The above tournament was the first of the season and 
was most unfortunate in the weather which prevailed. 
Owing to the vast amount of rain which fell steadily all 
through the week good playing was impossible. A word 
must be said here in the winner's favor. He certainly 
played a remarkably strong game and justly won the 
honors which befell him. 

Country Club Invitation Laivn Tennis Tournajnent, June 

4, 1888. 

The Country Club of Westchester County on the above 
date asked several of the prominent players to play in a 
small invitation tournament arranged by the members of 



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the club. Only four responded and the tournament 
was given with these few entries. The surprise of the 
tournament was the excellent playing of O. S. Campbell, 
who, after defeating H. A. Taylor, inflicted the same 
punishment upon Mr. Beeckman after a struggle of 
five sets in which many long and brilliant sallies occur- 
red. Following is the score in full : First Round, O. S. 
Campbell beat H. A. Taylor, 6-3, 3-6, 6-0; R. L. Beeck- 
man beat C. E. Sands, 6-3, 5-6, 6-3. Final Rounds O. 
S. Campbell beat R. L. Beeckman, 6-8, 6-3, 6-4, 5-7, 6-3. 



Chestnut Hill Lawn Tennis Club Tournameyit, June 12, 

1888. 

First Round : Ladies' Singles: Miss Marlon Wright, 
beat Miss Grace W. Roosevelt, 6-2, 6-3; Miss Bertha L. 
Townsend beat Mrs. Alan H. Harris, 6-4, 6-0; Miss E. 
C. Roosevelt beat Mrs. Johnson, 6 3, 6-0; Miss Adeline 
Robinson beat Miss Augusta Roberts, 6-3, 6-4; Miss 
Ward, a bye. Second Rounds Miss Wright beat Miss 
Ward, 6-0, 6-5; Miss Robinson beat Miss Roosevelt, 6-4, 
3-6, 6-3; Miss Townsend a bye. Third Round, Miss 
Townsend beat Miss Robinson, 1-6, 6-5, 6-3; Miss 
Wright, a bye. Final Round, Miss Townsend beat Miss 
Weight, 6-2, 6-2. Championship Round, Miss B. L. 
Townsend (challenger), beat Miss N. Hansell (holder), 

6-3, 6-5. 

Preliminary Round: Ladies' Doubles: Miss Hansell and 
Miss Knight beat Mrs. Harris and Miss Moss, 6-4, 6-1; 
Miss Robinson and Miss Ward beat Miss Wright and 
Miss Paxson, 6-2, 6-1. First Round, The Misses Roose- 
velt beat Miss Hansell and Miss Knight, 6-4, 6-1; Miss 



22 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

Robinson and Miss Ward beat Miss Townsend and Miss 
Roberts, 6-4, 6-3. Final Rounds The Misses Roosevelt 
beat Miss Robinson and Miss Ward, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4. 

Preliminary Round: Mixed Doubles: Mrs. Harris and 
Mr. G. Remak, Jr., beat Miss Ward and Mr. J. Johnson, 
6-1, 5-6, 6-2. First Round, Mrs. Harris and Mr. Remak, 
Jr., beat Miss E. C. Roosevelt and Wx. M. W. Reeves, 6-0, 
5-6, 6-2; Miss A. Robinson and Mr. P. Johnson beat Miss 
J. Harding and Mr. H. Powel, 6-0, 6-2; Miss A. Roberts 
and Mr. Beach beat Miss N. Hansell and Mr. Allen, 6-4, 
6-4; Miss M. Wright and Mr. J. S. Clark beat Miss B. 
•Townsend and Mr. C. Cowperthwait, 6-4, 6-1. Secojid 
Round, Miss Robinson and Mr. Johnson beat Mrs. Harris 
and Mr. Remak, Jr., 2-6, 6-4, 6-1; Miss Wright and Mr. 
Clark beat Miss Roberts and Mr. Beach, 6-2, 6-3. Final 
Round, Miss M. Wright and Mr. J. S. Clark beat Miss A. 
Robinson and Mr. P. Johnson, 1-6, 6-5, 6-4, 6-3. 

First Roimd: Gentlemen s Doubles: M. D. Smith and 
W. D. Goforth beat Denniston and Warren, 6-4, 6-1; J. 
S. Clark rnd Fielding beat P. Hood and G. Remak, Jr., 
6-2, 6-3, J. and P. Johnson beat Allen and Cowperthwait, 
5-6, 6-5, 6-5; H. Powel and J. W. Biddle, a bye. Second 
Round, Clark and Fielding beat Smith and Goforth, 6-2, 
6-1; J. and P. Johnson beat Powel and Biddle, 6-3, 6-2. 
Final Ronnd, Clark and Fielding beat J. and P. Johnson, 
6-1, 6-1, 6-4. The event of the tournament was the vic- 
tory of Miss Townsend, of the Belmont C. C. over Miss 
Robinson, of the Staten Island C. C. The first set was 
easily won by Miss Robinson. Miss Townsend improved 
in the second set, and the result was splendid tennis fol- 
lowed. Miss Townsend's back-hand strokes being partic- 
ularly effective. The games reached four all and the 
excitement was intense, every play being greeted with ap- 



LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 23 

plause. Miss Townsend was, however, very cool, and 
played with great steadiness, which gave her the set, 6-5. 
The last set was easily won by Miss Townsend, giving 
her the match, three sets to one. The Misses Roosevelt 
displayed much good tennis throughout the tournament, 
and would have made a better showing if they had not 
been so out of practice. 

St. George s Cricket Club Lawn Tennis Tournament^ 
ChampionsJiip of the Middle States, June 13, 1888. 

Preliminary Round: Singles: E. B. Babbitt beat D. 
Miller, 6-5, 6-4, 4-6, 6-1; O. S. Campbell beat L. V. 
Hoppin, 6-3, 6-5, 6-5; G. Notman beat C. K. Runyon, 
5-6, 6-4, 6-2, 1-6, 6-3. First Round, Campbell beat 
Babbitt, 6-3, 6-3, 6-4; Notman beat E. L. Hall, 4-6, 6-3, 
4-6, 6-3, 6-1; H. A. Taylor beat C. E. Sands, 6-1, 6-2, 
6-3; M. S. Baton, beat J. T. Hobart, 6-5, 6-3, 5-6, 6-0; 
E. B. MacMullen beat A. W. Bost, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4; C. 
Hobart beat R. C. Sands, 6-2, 6-5, 6-3; V. G. Hall beat 
J. W. Raymond, 6-3, 6-1, 6-1; F. M. Bacon beat F. A. 
Kellogg, 6-2, 6-4, 6-2. Second Round, Campbell beat 
Notman, 6-1, 6-5, 4-6, 6-0; Taylor beat Baton, 6-1, 6-2, 
6-5; MacMullen beat Hobart, 6-2, 6-1, 4-6, 6-3; Bacoh 
beat Hall by default. Third Round, Taylor beat Camp- 
bell, 6-1, 4-6, 6-3, 6-5; MacMullen beat Bacon, 6-1, 6-1, 
6-2. /^zVm/ Round, E. B. MacMullen beat H. A. 
Taylor, 6-1, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. Championship Round, E. B. 
MacMullen (challenger) beat R. L. Beeckman (holder), 
6-0, 6-4, 0-6, 8-6. Although MacMullen played a 
strong game it was apparent that Beeckman's game 
had fallen off considerably and his many admirers 



24 LAWN TEKNIS IN AMERICA. 

were greatly disappointed in the loose style in which he 
played. Taylor the other crack was not up to his usual 
good form, and made many inexcusable errors. The 
ground was soft owing to constant rains which prevented 
any very excellent playing. 



Neiv Have7i Lawn Tennis Club Tournament, CJiampion- 
sJiip of New England, J nne 20, 1888. 

Preliminary Round: Singles: G. A. Hurd beat F. A. 
Kellogg, 6-1, 6-2; O. S. Campbell beat H. M. Billings, 
6-4, 5-5; A. E. Wright beat E. S. Belknap, 6-2, 6-2. 
First Round, Campbell beat Hurd, 5-6, 6-5, 6-4; Wright 
beat R. V. Beach, 6-3, 0-6, 8-6; F. G, Beach beat R. H. 
Mallory, 6-0, 6-1; J. W. Nichols, Jr., beat W. Harmar, 
6-1, 6-3; E. P. MacMullen beat F. D. Pavey, 6-4, 6-3; 
C. H. Ludington, Jr., beat L. C. Sanford, 6-1, 6-3; C. W. 
Pierson beat A. S. Osborn, 6-1, 5-6, 6-3; W. L. Thacher 
beat R. P. Huntington, Jr., 6-1, 6-1. Second Round, 
Campbell beat Wright, 5-6, 6-5, 6-4; Beach beat Nichols, 
6-1, 6-3; MacMullen beat Ludington, 6-3, 4-6, 6-0; 
Thacher beat Pierson, 6-2, 6-3. Third Round, Camp- 
bell beat Beach, 6-3, 6-3; MacMullen beat Thacher, 6-3, 
3-6, 7-5. Final Ronnd, E. P. MacMullen beat O. S. 
Campbell, 6-3, 6-3, 3-6, 3-6, 6-3. ChampionsJiip Roimd, 
H. W. Slocum, Jr., (holder), beat E. P. MacMullen, 
(challenger), 8-6, 5-7, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2. 

PreliminaYy Ronnd: Doubles: G. A. Hurd and R. P. 
Huntington, Jr., beat R. V. Beach and C. H. Ludington, 
Jr., 4-6, 6-3, 7-5; F. G. Beach and W. L. Thacher beat 
E. P. MacMullen and A. E. Wright, 6-5, 6-5. First 
Rounds Beach and Thacher beat Hurd and Huntington, 



LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 2 5 

6-5, 6-2; J. T. C. Huntington and W. H. St. John beat 
E. S. Belknap and R. H. Mallory, 6-4, 6-5; A. L. Ripley 
and A. L. Shipman beat F. A. Kellogg and J. W. Nich- 
olas, Jr., 6-1, 6-0; O. S. Campbell and V. G. Hall beat 
H. M. Billings and A. J. Parker, 6-0, 6-3. Second Round, 
Beach and Thacher beat Huntington and St. John, 6-5, 
6-3; Campbell and Hall beat Ripley and Shipman, 6-5, 
6-3. Final and CJiainpionship Round, O. S. Campbell 
and V. G. Hall beat F. G. Beach and W. L. Thacher, 
7-5, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3. 

The playing in the Singles especially in the final and 
championship round were the two features of this tourna- 
ment. In the final between Campbell and MacMuUen, 
the games were close and the playing brilliant. MacMul- 
len won owing to Campbell's endurance powers weak- 
ening. It was, however, an exceedingly pretty match, 
and both players deserve the highest praise for their good 
work. 

In the championship round, Slocum the holder of the 
cup, and champion of the New England States, had 
about all he could do to retain his title. MacMullen 
started to play in the afternoon after his morning's match 
with Campbell, and plainly showed in his play that the 
work of the morning was sufficient for one's days work. 
Slocum however had been telegraphed that his match 
was to be played on this afternoon, and having made 
other engagements could not possibly wait over, and was 
therefore anxious of playing it through and having it off 
his hands. MacMullen played until it was quite apparent 
to the committee that it was impossible for him to con- 
tinue, and Slocum was asked if he would not postpone 
the match until some future date. This was a favor which 
the committee requested Mr. Slocum to grant them, for, 



26 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

according to rule the match could have been claimed by 
default. Mr. Slocum, however, took no such mean ad- 
vantage of his adversary but immediately consented to 
the committee's demand, although causing him great 
inconvenience. He was rewarded, however, a few days 
later by winning the final set, which gave him the cup 
and championship for the second time. If he succeeds 
in winning it again this coming June he will then be- 
come owner of it. In the double play comment is 
unnecessary. Campbell and Hall had no difficulty in 
winning, and on the whole the playing was not much 
above the average double game. 

Orange Open Lawn-Tennis Tournament^ June 20, 1888. 

First Round: Sijtglcs: Colgate beat E. Hall, 6-4, 6-3; 
Post beat Cushman, 6-0, 6-0; Babbitt beat Fowler, 6-1, 
4-6, 6-4; Miller beat Paton, 6-0, 6-4; Coffey beat Chase, 
6-2, 6-5; Taylor beat Reese, 6-5, 6-1 ; Hobart beat^ 
Sands, 6-1,6-0; Trevor beat Brown by default. Secotu 
Round, Post beat Colgate, 6-4,6-1; Miller beat Babbitt,] 
6-4, 6-0; Taylor beat Hobart, 6-2,6-2; Trevor beat Cof- 
fey, 6-4, 6-5. Third Round, Post beat Miller, 6-5, 6-3; 
Taylor beat Trevor, 6-0, 6-2. Final Round, H. A. Tay- 
lor beat A. W. Post, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4. 

First Roiuid : Doubles: Taylor and Sands beat Col- 
gate and Brown, 6-5, 6-3; Hobart and Post beat Chase 
and Hoppin, 6-2, 5-6, 6-4. Second Round, Taylor and 
Sands beat Coffey and Trevor, 6-1, 6-5; Hobart and 
Post beat Prowler and Hall, 6-2, 6-1. Final Round, 
H. A. Taylor and C. E. Sands beat C. Hobart and A. 
W. Post, 5-7, 9-7, 8-6, 1-6, 6-4. 

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Tennis Tournament should have been the same as that of 
the New Haven Club. For many players who played at 
New Haven would have entered at Orange if the dates 
had not coincided. The playing at the Orange Tourna- 
ment was far below the tournament playing of previous 
seasons. Taylor was the only crack entered, and had 
but little difficulty in winning the singles ; and with his 
partner, C. E. Sands, they also took the doubles, but in 
this last case the playing was decidedly better, and the 
result very close. Hobart and Post played a plucky 
and, at times, brilliant game, and although they were 
beaten they made an excellent showing. 

TJie Montclair Lawn-Tennis Tournament^ June 29, 1888. 

First Rounds Singles : A. B. Gladwyn beat L. E. Lee, 
6-4, 6-1; C. Hobert beat O. S. Strong, 6-1, 6-2; W. A. 
Tomes beat R. M. Boyd, 6-4, 6-2; A. W. Post beat A. 

E. Wright, 6-1, 6-5; R. V. Beach beat S. M. Colgate, 
5-6, 6-2, 6-0; \V. A. Brown beat H. M. Peters, 6-2, 6-4; 

F. A. Kellogg beat A. B. Hall, 6-0, 6-2. Second Round, 
Hobert beat Tomes, 6-5, 6-4; Raymond beat Gladwyn, 
6-0, 6-3; Post beat Kellogg, 6-3, 6-0; Beach beat Brown, 
6-5, 6-4. TJiird Round, Hobart beat Raymond, 6-3, 
6-2; Beach beat Post, 3-6, 6-4, 6-5. Final Round, C. 
Hobart beat R. V. Beach, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-5. 

First Round : Doubles : J. Prossor and R. Mackay beat 
E. Boyd and F. Carter, 6-4, 4-6, 6-5; A. E. Wright 
and R. V. Beach beat L. E. Lee and S. Bogert, 6-1, 
6-4; W. A. Brown and S. M. Colgate beat Graham 
and Bogert, 6-4, 6-4. Second Round, Post and Hobart 
beat Prossor and MacKay, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1; Wright and 
Beach beat Colgate and Brown, 6-5, 6-4. Final Rounds 



28 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

A. W. Post and C. Hobart beat A. E.Wright and R. V. 
Beach, 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 6-8, 6-2. 



Chicago Lawn-Tennis Tournament ^ for the ChampionsJiip 
of tJte Western States, July /^, 1888. 

First Round : Singles : T. L. McClung beat G. S. Hall, 
6-3, 6-2; E. A. Valentine beat C. Pierce, 1-6, 6-1, 6-2; 
E. W. McClellan beat H. H. Davis, 6-2, 3-6, ^y, J. W. 
Carver beat E. A. Sheldon, by default; S. Chase beat W. 
E. Clark, by default. Second Round, Chase beat Valentine, 
6-5, 6-1; Carver beat McClung, 6-5, 1-6, 6-5; McClellan, 
a bye. Third Round, Chase beat Carver, 6-4, 6-1; 
McClellan, a bye. Final Round, E. W. McClellan beat 
S. Chase, 6-3, 6-8, 6-2, 6-1. 

Championship Round, C. A. Chase (holder) beat E. W. 
McClellan (challenger), 6-3, 6-3, 6-1; First Round: 
Doubles: McClellan and Cummins beat the Forstall 
Brothers, 6-1, 6-0; Chase Brothers beat the Marquis 
Brothers, 6-4, 6-1; Hall and Carver beat Valentine and 
McClung, 6-4, 5-6, 6-4; Davis and Moulding beat Shel- 
don and Clark, by default. Second Round, McClellan and 
Cummins beat the Chase Brothers, 6-3, 6-2. Hall and 
Carver beat Davis and Moulding, 6-4, 6-4. Final Round, 
McClellan and Cummins beat Hall and Carver, 6-4, 6-2, 
6-2. 

Although Chicago is a long way off from New York 
there is no reason why the Western men should not 
play lawn tennis just as well as their Eastern friends. 
The above tournament, held on July Fourth, was in 
every way a most successful one, and many fine rallies 
and exciting sets were encored by a large audience, 



LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 29 

who, they tell me, are always present whenever a tennis 
tournament is to take place. 

Mr. C. A. Chase, champion of the West, had but little 
difficulty in defeating Mr. McClellan, the challenger, 
and by doing so retained for another season his title of 
champion of the Western States. 

Engleiuood Lazvn-Tennis Tournament^ July ^, 1888. 

Preluninary Round: Singles: J. H. Sherwood beat R. 
V. Beach, 6-3, 6-2; O. S. Campbell beat M. F. Prosser, 
6-5, 6-^. First Rounds Campbell beat Sherwood, 6-5, 
6-5; C. Robert beat J. W. Raymond, 3-6, 6-3, 6-5; W. 
A. Tom.es beat H. Alexander, 2-6, 6 3, 6-3. F. A. Kel- 
logg beat H. Hoadley, by default. A. M. Banks beat 
A. B. Gladwyn, 6-2, 6-3; G. Notman beat V. Hock- 
meyer, 6-3, 2-6, 6-1; R. Stevens beat D. Miller, 6-}^, 
2-6, 6-1; A. E. Wright beat C. J. Post, 6-3, 5-6, 6-4. 

Second Round, Campbell beat Hobart, 3-6, 11-9, and 
won the third set by default ; Wright beat Stevens, 6-3, 
6-4; Notman beat Banks, 6-1, 6-1; Tomes beat Kellogg, 
6-1, 6-4. Third RotcndyW nght beat Notman, 6-0, 6-3; 
Campbell beat Tomes, 7-5,7-9, 6-1. Final Round , O. 
S. Campbell beat A. E. Wright, 6-2, 7-5, 4-6, 6-4. 

First Round : Doubles: Stevens and Alexander beat 
C. and V. Hockmeyer, by default'; Kellogg and Lee beat 
Boyd and Partner, by default; Prosser and MacKay beat 
Notman and Post, 6-2, 6-4; Campbell and Wright beat 
Beach and Raymond, 6-5, 6-4. Second Round, Campbell 
and Wright beat Mackay and Prosser, 6-3, (i-2\ Kellogg 
and Lee beat Stevens and Alexander, by default. Final 
Round, O. S. Campbell and A. E. Wright beat F. A. Kel- 
logg and A. Lee, 6-1, 6-3, 6-^. 



30 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

Wcllcshy Open Lawn-Tetmis Tour?iameut, July lo, 1888. 

Preliminary Round: Singles: W. L. Jennings beat G. 
L. Kingsley, 7-5, 8-6; Manchester beat W. F. Baker, 6-0, 
6-1; Johnson beat E. F. Baker, 6-3,6-0, A. L. Williston 
beat A. Johnson, 6-5,6-0, H. C. Forbes beat H.A. Dit- 
son,6-4, 6-1; Arnold beat Appleton, 6-1, 6-2, H. Hovey 
beat H. G. Bixby, 6-3, 6-4; P. S. Sears beat H. W. 
Forbes, 6-1, 6-3; Deane beat Coit, 4-6, 6-0, 6-2; A. F. 
Fuller beat A. S. Woodman, 5-6, 6-5, 6-1. First Ronnd^ 
W. L. Kingsley beat Wildes, 3-6, 6-1, 6-2. E. P. Mac- 
Mullen beat Jennings, 6-2, 6-1; Williston beat Man- 
chester, 6-5, 6-2; Arnold beat Forbes, 6-2, 2-6, 6-1; 
Sears beat Hovey, 6-2, 6-1; Deane beat Fuller, 6-4, 6-4; 
Mansfield beat Farrington, 6-1, 6-1; Shaw beat Dodd, 
6-2^ 6-2. Second Round, MacMuUen beat Kingsley, 6-5, 
6-3; Williston beat Arnold, 6-1, 6-4; Sears beat Deane, 
6-5, 6-0; Mansfield beat Shaw, 3-6, 6-1, Z-6. TJiird 
Rounds Sears beat Mansfield 6-4, 3-6, 7-5: Williston 
beat MacMuUen, 6-0, 0-6, 7-5. Final Round, P. S. Sears 
beat A L Williston, 4-6, 3-6, 6-2, 6-2, 6-2. 

Preliminary Round: Doubles: Sears and Shaw beat 
Appleton and Johnson, 6-5, 6-3; G. L. Kingsley and 
Smith beat Coit and Dean, 6-3, 6-3; Hovey and Wildes 
beat Orcutt and Forbes, 1-6, 6-5, 6-2. 

First Round, Williston and Jennings beat Bixby and 
Farrington, 2-6, 6-4, 6-1; W. Kingsley and Manchester 
beat Woodman and Baker, 6-0, 6-2\ Mansfield and 
Prcsbrey beat G. Kingsley and Smith, 6-3, 6-4; Sears 
and Shaw beat Wilde and Hovey, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2. Second 
Round, Manchester and Kingsley beat Mansfield and 
Presbrcy, 6-2, 6-4; Sears and Shaw beat Williston and 



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Jennings, 6-2, 6-2. Final Rounds Sears and Shaw beat 
Manchester and Kingsley, 3-6, 6-^, 6-3, 6-1. 

The features of the Wellesley Tournament was the 
excellent playing in the singles of Williston who before 
this had been comparatively unknown. He defeated 
Manchester and MacMullen, and in the final against P. 
Sears won the first two sets and was looked upon as a 
sure winner, but Sears played the next three sets of the 
match with wonderful coolness and accuracy, which won 
for him the tournament. Williston, however, made an 
excellent showing and should do well during the coming 
summer. 

In the doubles Sears and Shaw, to use a slang ex- 
pression, " cleaned out" everyone and won hands down. 

The entries, as will be seen above, included nearly all 
the well-known players, and as this was the first tourna- 
ment given under these auspices at Wellesley the man- 
agers should be congratulated. . 

Elbcron Casino Invitation Lawfi-Tennis Tournament., 

July II. 

In the final of the singles V. G. Hall and O. S. Camp- 
bell had a hard tussle, and at times excellent tennis was 
shown. Mr. Campbell, however, proved himself equal 
to the occasion and finally won by the score of 4-6, 6-3, 
6-4, 2-6, 6-1. In the doubles C. E. Sands and V. G. 
Hall, after defeating H. A. Taylor and J, S. Clark, were 
in turn defeated in the finals by A. E. Wright and O. S. 
Campbell. Score: 6-2, 6-2. 



32 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

Rockaway Hunting Club Lawn-Tennis Tournament^ 

July 17, 1888. 

Preliminary Round: Singles: H. A. Taylor beat F. A. 
Kellogg, 6-1, 6-3, C. E. Sands beat W. A. Tomes, 6-5, 
6-4; H, W. Slocum, Jr., beat A. G. Wheeler, 6-1, 6-3. 
First Rounds Taylor beat Sands, 4-6, 6-5, 6-2; G. Not- 
man beat M. S. Paton, 5-6, 6-4, 6-2, A. W. Post beat 
C. J. Post, 6-5, 6-4; Slocum, a bye. Second Round, Slo- 
cum beat Post, 6-5, 6-4: Taylor beat Notman, 6-2, 6-5. 
/^?;z<7:/ Round, Slocum beat Taylor, 6-4, 7-9, 5-7, 9-7, 8-8, 
unfinished (darkness closed the play and Slocum won by 
a toss). 

First Round : Doubles: Tomes and C. J. Post beat 
Kellogg and Notman, 6-5, 6-3; Beeckman and Sands 
beat Taylor and Paton, 7-5, 6-3: Slocum and Keene 
beat A. W. Post and Wheeler, 6-1, 6-4. Second Round , 
Beeckman and Sands beat Tomes and C. Post, 6-3. 7-5; 
Slocum and Keene, a bye. Final Round, H. W. Slo- 
cum, Jr., and F. Keene beat R. L. Beeckman and C. E. 
Sands, 7-5. 6-3, 6-4. 

Meadoiv Club Lawn-Tennis Tournament, Sojithampton, 

July 24, 1888. 

Preliminary Round: Singles; O. S. Campbell beat J. 
Rowland, 6-3, 6-4; G. Atterbury beat P. Johnson, by 
default: L. Saltus beat M. De Garmendia, 6-4, 1-6, 6-4; 
W. A. Tomes beat T. Warren, 1-6, 6-4, 6-2; C. Rowland 
beat F. H. Betts, 6-4, 6-1; J. S. Clark beat D. Miller, 
6-3, 6-0. First Round, Campbell beat Atterbury, 6-^, 
6-2; Tomes beat Saltus, by default; Clark beat Row- 
land, 6-4, 6-1; P^olsom beat C. Sands, by default; J. 




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Bacon beat F. Kellogg, 6-5, 6-0; H. W. Slocum, Jr., 
beat H. Billings, by default ; F. Bacon, Jr., beat J. 
Johnson, by default; F. Keene beat W. Ward, 6-3, 6-2. 
Sccofid Rounds Campbell beat Tomes, 6-1, 6-4; Clark 
beat Folsom, 6-5, 6-2; Slocum beat J. Bacon, 6-1, 6-2; 
Keene beat F. Bacon, Jr., 6-0, 6-4. TJiird Roicnd, Clark 
beat Campbell, 6-2, 6-4; Slocum beat Keene, 6-3, 6-3. 
Final Romtdj J. S. Clark beat H. W. Slocum, Jr., 6-2, 6-^^, 
6-4. Championship Rounds H. A. Taylor (holder) beat 
J. S .Clark (challenger), 6-8, 6--1, 1-6, 6-3, 6-3. 

Preliminary Round: Doubles: F. M. and J. F. Bacon 
beat S. and M. De Garmendia, 6-5, 6-2. 

First Round: Ladies Singles: Miss Colby beat Mrs. 
Babbitt, 6-3, 6-2; Miss Smallwood beat Miss Trowbridge, 
6-2, 6-3; Miss Lente beat Miss Fraser, 6-1, 5-6, 6-0; 
Miss N. Lente beat Miss Smith, 6-1, 6-1. Second Rounds 
Miss Lente beat Miss W. Lente, 6-3, 6-0; Miss Small- 
wood beat Miss Colby, 6-0, 5-6, 6-4. Final Round, Miss 
Lente beat Miss Smallwood, 6-4, 5-6, 6-4. 

In the final round of the ladies' doubles Miss Lente 
and Miss Smallwood beat Miss Colby and Miss Fraser, 
6-1, 6-1. 

First Round, Folsom and Saltus beat the Bacon 
Brothers, 6-3, 6-3; Slocum and Keene beat Miller and 
Tomes, 6-4, 6-5; Taylor and Sands beat Warren and 
Kellogg, 6-3, 2-6, 6-1; Clark and Campbell beat C. and 
J. Rowland, 6-2, 6-4. Second Round, Slocum and Keene 
beat Folsom and Saltus, 6-0, 6-0; Taylor and Sands 
beat Clark and Campbell, 6-4, 7-5. Final Round, Slo- 
cum and Keene beat Taylor and Sands, 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 
6-1. 

First Round: Mixed Doubles: MissK. Brady and Mr. 
Taylor beat Mr. Sands and Partner, by default; Miss 



34 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

Bstts and Mr. Slocum beat Miss Pell and Mr. Ward, 
6-2, 6-3; Miss Gregory and Mr. Campbell beat Miss 
Erwin and Mr. Clark, 6-5, 6-4; Miss Wilmerding and 
Mr. Rowland beat Miss M. Brady and Mr. Stevens, by 
default. Second Round : ]\Iiss Betts and Mr. Slocum 
beat Miss K. Brady and Mr. Taylor, 6-3, 6-0 ; Miss 
Gregory and Mr. Campbell beat Miss Wilmerding and 
Mr. Rowland, 6-1, 6-3. Final Round, Miss Betts and 
Mr. Slocum beat Miss Gregory and Mr. Campbell, 7-5, 

6-3. _ • 

The championship of Long Island, or otherwise known 
as the Meadow Club Lawn-Tennis Tournament of South- 
ampton, was won a second time by H. A. Taylor. 
This makes Mr. Taylor the happy possessor of the 
handsome punch bowl offered by the club two seasons 
ago on condition that any player winning it twice 
should hold it as his own. The features of the tour- 
nament was Mr. J. S. Clark's excellent playing, which, 
to many, was quite a surprise, for, up to this point, 
his playing in previous tournaments had been far below 
his usual average and of a very ordinary quality. How- 
ever, Southampton seemed to be his refuge, and after 
defeating O. S. Campbell quite handily, he met Mr. 
Slocum in the final, and won three straight sets. On 
the following day his luck seemed to leave him (if you 
can call it by that name), and although giving Mr. 
Taylor a very hard fight, he didn't just " get there," 
as the boys express it. In the gentlemen's doubles 
Taylor and Sands, after defeating Campbell and Clark, 
were looked upon as sure winners, but unfortunately; 
those who put up their candy boxes had never seen 
Slocum and Kccne play, and after seeing the first two 
sets, odds of four to one were given in favor of the 



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latter team, which was about square, for Slocum and 
Keenc Avon quite handily, their opponents scoring but 
one set. 

In the mixed doubles, the ladies showed what they 
could do, and were more particular about the way they 
played than the clothes they wore, which was a wonder- 
ful improvement and a very wise step. 

Wright and Ditson s Open Lawn-Tennis Tournament y 
July 31, 1888. 

Preliminary Round: Singles : W. L. Kingsley beat A. 
S. Woodman, 6-3, 4-6, 6-1 ; G. L. Kingsley beat Fiske 
Warren, 6-2, 6-5. First Round, C. A. Chase beat A. T. 
Fuller, 6-2, 6-4; E. P. MacMuUen beat P. S. Sears, 6-2, 
6-4; F. Mansfield beat W. B. Thurber, 6-2, 6-4; W. 
R. Weeden beat H. Wildes, 6-3, 8-6; D. Miller beat F. 
A. Kellogg, 6-1, 6-1; E. P. Mitchell beat E. F. Baker, 
7-5, 1-6, 6-2; H. Tallant beat H. G. Bixby, 6-1, 7-5; 
D. K. Snow beat A. L. Willlston, 6-2, 3-6, 6-4; H. W. 
Slocum, Jr., beat F. H. Hovey, 5-7, 6-2, 6-2; F.V. Hoppin 
beat Foxhall Keene, by default; H. A. Ditson beat H. 
C. Forbes, by default; Q. A. Shaw, Jr., beat G. A. Hurd, 
6-1, 6-1; G. L. Kingsley beat H. L. Chase, $-6, 6-2, 6-0; 
O. S. Campbell beat G. W. Lee, 4-6, 6-4, 8-6; E. P. 
Dodd beat J. F. Meade, 6-0, 6-0; W. L. Kingsley beat 
W. L. Jennings, 6-3, 8-6. Second Round , Tallant beat 
G. Kingsley, 6-0, 6-3; MacMullen beat Mitchell, 6-1, 
6-1; Chase beat W. Kingsley, 6-3, 6-3; Mansfield beat 
W^eeden, 8-6, 9-7; Shaw beat Snow, 6-1, 3-6, Z-6\ Hop- 
pin beat Dodd, 6-2, 6-3; Campbell beat Slocum, 3-6, 
Z-^, 6-0; Wright beat Miller, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4. Third 
Round, Mansfield beat Shaw, 6-1, 6-3; Chase beat 



36 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

Wright, 6-0, 6-3; MacMullen beat Tallant, 6-4, 6-1; 
Campbell beat Hoppin, 6-3, 3-6, 7-5. Fourth Round, 
Chase beat MacMullen, 6-3, 1-6, 6-3; Campbell beat 
Mansfield, 6-4, 5-7, 7-5. Final Round, C. A. Chase 
beat O. S. Campbell, 6-4, 7-5, 4-6, 4-6, 6-3. 

Preliminary Round : Doubles: Dodd and Miller beat 
Kellogg and Fuller, 7-5, 6-2; Mansfield and Wright beat 
Baker and Denny, 6-1, 6-3; Sears and Shaw beat Lee 
and Tallant, 6-3, 6-1; Jennings and Chase beat Snow 
and Hurd, 6-1, 8-10, 6-1; Campbell and MacMullen 
beat Bixby and Wildes, 6-3, 6-3; Weeden and Hoppin 
beat Slocum and Keene, by default. First Round, 
Weeden and Hoppin beat Miller and Dodd, 6-3, %-6, 
6-1; Jennings and Chase beat Williston and Thurber, 
6-4, 9-7; Sears and Shaw beat Mansfield and Wright, 
6-2, 9-7; Campbell and MacMullen beat G. L. and W. 
L. Kingsley, 6-3, 6-1. Second Round, Sears and Shaw 
beat Jennings and Chase, 7-5, 6-8, 6-2; Campbell and 
MacMullen beat Weeden and Hoppin, 6-0, 6-0. Final 
Round, P. S. Sears and Q. A. Shaw, Jr., beat O. S. 
Campbell and E. P. MacMullen, by default. 

Wright and Ditson's annual tournament has become 
a feature of the tennis season, and all the players look 
forward to it for months before the time arrives. For 
the last five years all the best players of the country 
have contested, and last season was no exception to this 
rule. 

The success of the above tournament is entirely due 
to the energy and skillful management of Mr. H. A. 
Ditson, who has, during the past few seasons, devoted 
much of his time in pushing forward and assisting the 
progress of this rapidly growing game. 

Last summer at Wenthworth, where this tournament 



LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 37 

has always been held, the playing and excitement that 
existed was better and far beyond anything ever seen 
there before. 

Mr. Chase, the champion of the West, won in the 
final from O. S. Campbell. The latter, unfortunately, 
sprained his ankle during this match, which was a serious 
drawback to him in his playing, and which compelled 
him to default the doubles to Shaw and Sears. After 
the tournament a large ball was given, which made 
everyone happy, and all left with the impression that 
the Wenthworth tournament was the jolliest tourney of 
the season. 

The NaJiant Invitation Lawn-Tefinis Tournament y 
August 7, 1888. 

In the above tournament every player entered plays 
every other player, so that the winner is obliged to face 
every man before winning. Mr. C. A. Chase won, his 
playing throughout being exceedingly fine. He did not 
lose a single set, although defeating five cracks. C. A. 
Chase beat P. S. Sears, Q. A. Shaw. Jr., E. P. MacMul- 
len, F. Mansfield and F. V. Hoppin. P. S. Sears beat 
E. P. MacMullen, Q. A. Shaw, jr., F. Mansfield and F. 
V. Hoppin. 

E. P. MacMullen beat Q. A. Shaw, Jr., F. Mansfield 
and F. V. Hoppin. 

Q. A. Shaw, Jr., beat F. Mansfield and F. V. Hoppin. 

F. Mansfield beat F. V. Hoppin. 

Narragansett Pier Lawn-Tennis Tournament, August 

14, 1888. 

Preliminary Round : Singles : W. R. Weedon beat J. 
E. Elliott, 6-3, 8-6; F. Hill beat H. C. Phillips, 6-1, 6-2; 



38 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

F. Warren beat S. Smith, 6-3, 6-2; R. B. Hale beat F. 
Keene, by default ; E. T. Lynch, Jr., beat J. Weeden, by 
default ; H. W. Slocum, Jr., beat S. I\I. Colgate, 6-0, 
6-1; M. Graham beat A. O. Taylor, by default. First 
Rotindy Weeden beat Hill, 6-3, 6-2\ Hale beat Warren, 
6-2, 3-6, 6-1; Slocum beat Lynch, 6-0, 6-0; J. A. Ryer- 
son beat Graham, 6-1,6-1; C. A, Chase beat T. S. Tailer, 
6-2, 6-0; O. S. Campbell beat L. Salters, 6-2, 9-7; H. 
Post beat E. Wilbur, 6-0, 6-0; Q. A. Shaw, Jr., beat J. 
Bryant, 6-0, 6-2; C. E. Smith beat W. Billings, 6-0, 6-1; 
D. Snow beat J. S. Brown, by default; P« V. Lansdale 
beat W. Smith, 6-0, 2-6, 6-0; L. H. Dulles beat S. P. 
Griffin, 6--^^^ 6-4; A. E. Weight beat W. R. Graham, 6-0, 
6-3; H. W. Cozzens beat G. H. Gilman, 6-1, 9-7; H. A. 
Taylor beat J. Colgate, 6-0, 6-4; S. Hodge beat T. J. 
Stead, 11-9, 6-3. Second Roiindy Slocum beat Ryerson, 
6-2, 3-6, 6-3; Shaw beat Post, 7-5, 4-6, 6-0; Smith beat 
Dulles, 6-2, 6-1; Wright beat Cozzens, 6-1, 6-1; Snow 
beat Lansdale, 4-6, 7-5, 6-1; Hale beat Weeden, 5-7, 
6-4, 6-4; Chase beat Campbell, 4-6, 6-1, 6-3; Taylor beat 
Hodge, 7-5, 6-3. Third Round, Slocum beat Hale, 6-1, 
6-3; Smith beat Snow, 7-5, 7-5; Taylor beat Wright, 4-6, 
6-1, 6-3; Shaw beat Chase, 6-2, 6-4. Fourth Roundy Slo- 
cum beat Shaw, by default; Taylor beat Smith, 6-1,6-1. 
Final Rou7td, H. A. Taylor beat H. W. Slocum, Jr., 6-4, 
8-6, 7-5. Second Prize , H. W. Slocum, Jr., beat S. Col- 
gate, 9-7, 6-1. In the Ladies' Singles Miss A. Robinson 
was victorious, defeating Miss E. C. Roosevelt in the 
final score, 6-0, 6-1, 6-0. Second Prize, Miss E. C. 
Roosevelt beat Miss May Colby, 6-2,6-1, 6-0. 

Preliminary Round: Mixed Doubles: Miss A. Robin- 
son and Mr. H. A. Taylor beat Miss M. Colby and Mr. 
S. Colgate, 6-3, 6-4; Miss E. C. Roosevelt and j\Ir. O. S. 



LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 39 

Campbell beat Miss Satrope and Mr. Post, 7-5, 7 5, Miss 
G. W. Roosevelt and Mr. A. E. Wright beat Miss Lynch 
and Mr. Garrett, 4-6, 6-2, 6-2. First Round, Miss E. 
Roosevelt and Mr. Campbell beat Miss G. Roosevelt 
and Mr. Wright, 6-3, 6-3; Miss Robinson and Mr. Tay- 
lor beat Miss Stoughton and Mr. Slocum, 6-3, 6-4. 
Final Roimd, Miss E. C. Roosevelt and Mr. O. S. Camp- 
bell beat Miss A. Robinson and Mr. H. A. Taylor, 6-2, 
6-2 y 4-6, 6-3. Second Prize, Miss Robinson and Mr. 
Taylor beat Miss G. Roosevelt and Mr. Wright, 6-4, 8-6. 

Bar Harbor Lazvn-Tennis Tournament, August 16, 1888. 

None of the cracks put in an appearance at this event 
except R. L. Beeckman, the holder of the challenge cup, 
who came up to defend his title. The tournament was 
played during the week of the Narragansett meeting, 
which was probably the cause of so moderate an attend- 
ance. Morton S. Paton, in the final round against Leigh 
Bonsall, showed excellent form, and played brilliant 
tennis, which won for him the match in three straight 
sets. In the championship round with Beeckman he 
made a strong fight, but was no match for the crack. 
Following will be found the scores: — Final Round : 
Singles: M. S. Paton beat L. Bonsall, 6-2, 6-1, 6-4. 
Championship Round, R. L. Beeckman (holder) beat M. 
S. Paton (challenger), 6-1, 6-1, 6-3. Final Round: 
Doubles (handicap) : Paton and Robins beat the Cush- 
man Brothers, 5-7, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4. 



40 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

Winnipeg Club Lazvn-Tennis Tournament, August i8, 

1888. 

In the final for the gentlemen's champion singles 
R. D. Applegate beat H. Cramer, 6-4, 6-5. In the final 
of the handicap singles W. Bain beat C. D. Drayson, 
6-3, 3-6, 6-1. 

In the mixed doubles there were nearly thirty entries. 
The result in the final was Mr. R. D. Applegate and 
Mrs. Ruttan defeated Mr. Tuckwell and Mrs. Nares, 6-3, 
6-4. The gentlemen's doubles fell to D. Applegate 
and M. Putnam, who defeated in the final A. E. Ferrie 
and G. F. Brophy, 6-1, 5-6, 6-0. 

For the championship in ladies' singles, Miss F. 
Adams defeated Mrs. Eden in the final, 6-5, 6-3. Ladies' 
handicap singles, Miss M. Beckett beat Miss C. Beckett 
in the final, 6-5, 3-6, 6-4. 

Championship Tournament , Newport, August 20, 1888. 

Preliminary RouTid: Singles: H. W. Slocum. Jr., beat 
C. A. Chase, 4-6, 6-2, 1-6, 6-2, 6-3. First Round, J. S. 
Clark beat F. L. V. Hoppin, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 6-2; J. 
Dwight beat F. W. Taylor, 6-3, 6-1, 6-2; E. Tuttle beat 
C. E. Steckney, by default; C. P. Wilbur beat C. Beatty, 
^3> 6-3, 9-7; O. S. Campbell beat W. Waller, 7-5, 6-3, 
6-2; M. Fielding beat Fiske Warren, 6-1, 6-2, 6-3; A. 
E. Wright beat G. F. Brown, Jr., 6-2, 6-3, 6-3; G. W. 
Lee beat A. R. Weeden, 6-4, 7-5, 6-2; P. S. Sears beat 
W. L. Jennings, 6-2, 6-3, 6-2; B. B. Lamb beat A. L. 
Rives, 6-1, 6-2, 6-1; H. A. Taylor beat F. A. Kellogg, by 
default; R. B. Hale beat G. M. Brinlcy, by default; A. 
L. WiUiston beat V. G. Hall, 6-4, 6-%, 7-5, 3-6, 6-2; J. 
A. Ryerson beat A. Hubbard, 8-6; 6-3, 3-6, 6-0; P. S. 



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Presbrey beat T. S. Tailer, 19-21, 8-6, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4. 
Second Rounds Dwight beat Tuttle, 6-1, 6-0, 6-1; Camp- 
bell beat Wilbur, 6-2, 6-1, 6-3; Wright beat Fielding, 
6-2, 1-6, 6-1, 6-1; Sears beat Lee, 6-2, 6-0, 6-1; Ryer- 
son beat Lamb, 6-2, 6-0, 3-6, 1 1-9 ; Taylor beat Hale, 
6-1, 6-1, 6-1; Williston beat Presbrey, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4; 
Slocum beat Clark, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2. Third Round, Camp- 
bell beat Wright, 4-6, 6-3. 1-6, 8-6, 6-2; Sears beat 
Ryerson, 5-7, 6-3, 6-0, 6-2; Taylor beat Williston, 6-2, 
6-3, 7-5 ; Slocum beat Dwight, 4-6, 6-2, 6-0, 6-3. 
Fourth Round, Slocum beat Campbell, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4; 
Taylor beat Sears, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2. Final and Cham- 
pionship Round, H. W. Slocum, Jr., beat H. A. Taylor, 
6-4, 6-1, 6-0. Second Prize won by O. S. Campbell, de- 
feating J. S. Clark. 

In the final of the consolation prize (for all those 
beaten in the first round) F. L. V. Hoppin beat W. L. 
Jennings, 6-2, 4-6, 6-2. 

The championship in singles for the season of 1888 
created more excitement in the tennis world than in 
any previous season. The principal reason was that R. D. 
Sears, who had held this honor since 1 881, was unable 
to compete owing to sickness. This, of course, left the 
championship open, and the winner of " The All 
Comers " not only won the tournament but the cham- 
pion honors as well. The list of entries, which was a 
long one, included all the prominent players of the 
country, with the exception of Beeckman and MacMul- 
len ; H. W. Slocum, Jr., and C. A. Chase were the only 
two drawn in the preliminary round, and although the 
playing at first was not of the highest order, I consider 
that as the players got well warmed up some of the best 
tennis witnessed in the tournament was seen in this 



42 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

match. It was a five-set struggle, as the above score 
will show, and Mr. Slocum won more on his keeping 
cool than on brilliant playing. I am inclined to think 
that if Chase had not in the last set become a trifle 
rattled Slocum would have fared badly, for there was 
ao doubt that Chase was playing the better game of the 
two. 

There was little in the first round worthy of comment 
here. Presbrey and Tailer had a most extraordinary 
match, the first set not being won by Tailer until the 
games had reached 19-21. The playing, however, was 
devoid of interest and Presbrey finally won. 

In the second day's play rain interfered, and few 
matches were able to be played. In the second round 
Slocum met J. S. Clark, and a large crowd assembled 
around the court allotted for these two cracks to con- 
tend. The playing, however, on the part of Mr. Clark 
was miserable, while Mr. Slocum displayed wonderful 
accuracy and steadiness, which made him an easy winner 
in three straight sets. 

The features of the third round was the close call 
Wright gave Campbell and Dwight's defeat by Slocum. 

The match between these last two players was put 
down to be the best display of tennis the tournament 
had yet seen — which, I am sorry to say, would not have 
to be very good — as so far, the playing had been unin- 
teresting and not much above the average. 

Dwight won the first set in great style and started off 
well on the second, but Slocum, who up to this point 
had been playing as if somewhat rattled, pulled himself 
together and gave a wonderful exhibition, which was 
entirely too much for the Doctor, for after this set 
(second set) Slocum had the match well in his hands^ 



LAWN TENNIS !N AMERICA. 43 

and although his opponent tried every device in order 
to '* brace," it was of no avail, and the match went to 
Slocum three sets to one. 

In the fourth round Slocum easily defeated Campbell, 
who was expected to make a much better showing, and 
Taylor defeated P. Sears, although the latter got the 
first set. 

This left H. W. Slocum, Jr., and H. A. Taylor in the 
final to fight it out and settle on the morrow who should 
be entitled to the championship honors. 

The morrow came. The contestants appeared, and 
outside the ropes which enclosed the courts some three 
thousand spectators had assembled to witness the 
struggle, and encourage and applaud the victorious one 
in the battle for supremacy. 

Game was called by the referee and play began. 

I only wish the play had been worthy of more space 
than I am going to give it. It would be false if I flat- 
tered and commented in glowing terms the playing in 
this match. A word must be said in favor of Slocum, 
for he certainly played a steady, strong and winning 
game. But the exhibition which Mr. Taylor gave was 
not in accordance with his high standing as a player. 
He seemed like a baby in the hands of his opponent, 
and could literally do nothing. The score which is 
given above will show that out of i8 games Mr. Taylor 
won but five. And this ended another championship, 
which must have been gratifying to Mr. Slocum. For 
on entering the tournament he thought his chances so 
poor that he almost determined not to play, and, but 
for the persuasion of his many friends, I doubt whether 
Mr. Slocum would have been champion of America in 
singles to-day. 



44 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

Seabright Cricket Club Lawn-Tennis Tournament^ 
August 23, 1888. 

The gentlemen's singles were divided up in classes, 
and resulted in the following scores : Junior Singles : 
Final Round, T. Clark beat B. Strong, 6-2, 6-2. Senior 
Singles: Final Round, H. Alexander beat W. Ward, 
6-2, 6-4. In the ladies' singles, Miss Clarkson in the 
final won over her adversary. Miss B. Lockwood, by the 
score 6-2, 6-0. In the final of the gentlemen's doubles, 
Alexander and Byrd beat Shippen and Hadden, 4-6, 

6-5, M. 

Miss Clarkson and Mr. B. Strong were victorious in 
the junior mixed doubles, defeating, in the final round, 
Miss Lockwood and Mr. E. Park, 6-5, 6-2. 

In the senior mixed doubles Miss Lockwood and Mr. 
H. Alexander defeated Miss Thomas and Mr. W. Ward 
in the final, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1. 

Staten Island Athletic Club Lawn-Tennis Tottrnamcnt^ 
August 30, 1888. 

Preliminary Round: Singles : J, Brown beat N. Morris, 
by default ; J. W. Raymond beat W. Brown, by default ; 
D. Miller beat F. W. Smith, 6-2, 3-6, 10-8; J. C. Elliott 
beat W. A. French, 6-0, 6-0; S. Campbell, Jr., beat F. 
Williamson, 6-2, 2-6, 6-3. First Round, A. H. Larkin 
beat Campbell, 0-6, 6-1, 8-6; P. E. Johnson beat W. E. 
Gaynor; 6-4, 6-3; Brown beat M. De Garmendia, by 
default ; B. J. Carroll beat F. A. Kellogg, 6-3, 6-5; Ray- 
mond beat J. Johnson, 6-0, 6-4; Elliott beat G. H. Hen- 
shaw, 6-0, 6-0; C. J. Post beat J. C. Kelly, 6-0, 6-1; 
Miller beat S. Frothingham, 6-1,6-4. Second Round, 
Larkin beat Brown, 6-4, 6-0; Miller beat Johnson, 6-2, 




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2-6, 6-2; Elliott beat Carroll, 6-2, 5-6, 6-3; Raymond 
beat Post, 6-4, 3-6, 6-2. Third Round, Elliott beat 
Larkin, 6-5, 6-5; Raymond beat Miller, 6-3, 6-5. Final 
Rounds J. W. Raymond beat J. E. Elliott, 6-2, 1-6, 6-1, 
6-0. 

Doubles : First Round: C. Hobart and E. P. Mac- 
Mullen beat J. P. Paret and H. O. Phinney, 6-2, 6-2; S. 
W. Smith and J. E. Elliott beat N. Morris and partner, 
by default; W. Brown and J. Brown beat P. and J. John- 
son, 6-5, 6-5; A. H. Larkin and S. Campbell, Jr., beat 
C. J. Post and J. Raymond, 6-2, 5-6, 6-3. Second Round, 
Hobart and MacMuUen beat Larkin and Campbell, 6-2, 
5-6, 6-3; Smith and Elliott beat W. and J. Brown, 6-5, 
6-5. Final Rounds C. Hobart and E. P. MacMuUen 
beat S. W. Smith and J. E. Elliott, 6-1, 6-0, 7-5. 

TJie Championship of Central New York, September 3, 

1888. 

Preliminary Rouiid: Singles: G. L. Kingsley beat G. 
Wood, 6-0, 6-2; G. Ethridge beat W. N. Kernan, 2-6, 
7-5, 6-2; J. H. Taylor, Jr., beat W. S. Jeoney, 6-4, 7-5; 
R. G. Colthrop beat D. Foster, 6-0, 6-1. First Round, 

F. W. Peckham beat L. N. Kernan, 6-4, 5-6, 6-4; W. 
L. Kingsley beat J. A. Ryerson, 6-4, 8-6; G. L. Kingsley 
beat Ethridge, 6-8, 6-4, 8-6; Colthrop beat Taylor, by 
default. Second Round, W. L. Kingsley beat Peckham, 
6-0, 6-0; G. L. Kingsley beat Colthrop, 6-3, 7-5. Filial 
Roitndy W. L. Kingsley beat G. L. Kingsley, 6-1, 6-4. 
In the final round of the doubles, G. L. Kingsley and 

G. Ethridge won over their adversaries, W. L. Kingsley 
and J. H. Taylor, Jr., by the score 6-3, 6-4, 7-5. 



46 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

Delaware Field Chib Lawn-Tennis Tottmament, 
September 3, 1888. 

Preliminary Round : Singles : J. E. Smith beat C. T. 
Cowperthwait, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2. First Round, B. C. Cather- 
wood beat H. N. Conard, 6-2, 6-2; C, T. Lee beat J. E. 
Smith, 6-1, 6-5; A. E. Kennedy beat L. Leonard, 6-0, 
6-0; G. Remak, Jr., beat A. H. Smith, 6-0; 6-3. Second 
Round, Remak beat Kennedy, 6-1, 4-6, 6-3; Lee beat 
Catherwood, 6-2, 6-2. Final Round, G. Remak Jr., beat 
C. T. Lee, 2-6, 6-3, 6-3, q--;. 

First Round: Doubles: M. D. Smith and E. C. Smith 
beat W. W. Hilles and T. Johnson, 6-2, 5-6, 6-2; G. 
Remak, Jr., and C. T. Cowperthwait beat W. G. Fischer 
and H. C. Farson, 6-1, 6-2; J. E. Smith and A. H. Smith 
beat A. E. Kennedy and D. B. Catherwood, 2-6, 6-5, 
6-2; J. A. Scott and W. Scott beat A. G. Thompson and 
W. S. Thompson, by default. Second Round, the Smith 
Brothers beat Scott Brothers, 6-1, 6-3; Remak and Cow- 
perthwait beat J. and A. Smith, 6-2, 6-5. Final Round, 
M. D. Smith and E. C. Smith beat G. Remak, Jr., and 
T. C. Cowperthwait, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3. 

Toronto Lawfi-Tennis Tournament Championship of 
Canada, September 4, 1888. 

First Round : Singles: Plummer beat Hargraft, 6-2, 
6-3; Featherstonhaugh beat McDonal, 6-1, 6-4; Wood 
beat McEwen; 6-2, 6-4; Gillespie beat Ferrie, 6-2, 6-2; 
Hayes beat Kirkpatrick, '^-6, 1-6, 9-7; Mackenzie beat 
Moss, 6-3, 6-3; Macklem beat Jones, 6-4, 6-0; Davis 
beat Sarker, 6-4, 6-1; Torrance beat Swabey, 6-1, 6-1. 
Second Round, Wood beat Featherstonhaugh, 6-3, 6-3; 
Hayes beat Gillespie, 6-4, 6-2; Mackenzie beat Macklem, 



LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 4/ 

6-3, 6-3 ; Torrance beat Davies; 6-3, 6-1. Third Round, 
Wood beat Hayes, 6-3, 6-3; Torrance beat Mackenzie, 
6-4, 6-4. Final Rounds Wood beat Torrance, 6-3, 7-5, 
2-6, 9-7. Championship Rounds Hyman beat Wood, 
7-5, 8-6, 6-2. 

In the doubles Wood and Davies beat KIrkpatrick 
and Mackenzie in the final round, three straight sets, 
6-4, 6-2, 6-3. 

Lenox Lawn-Tennis Tournament^ September 4, 1888. 

Preliminary Roimd : Singles: W. E. Glyn beat S. 
Sherwood, 6-2, 0-6, 6-2; A. B. Whiting beat J. V. Bur- 
den, by default; P. S. Sears beat W. K. Fowler, 6-3, 6-4; 
H. G. Trevor beat A. L. Reeves, 6-0, 6-3; H. Parsons 
beat W. Myer, 6-0, 6-1; R. S. Sands beat W. Pollock, 
6-4, 5-6, 6-2. First Round, Glyn beat H. Kuhn, 6-3, 
6-4; Sears beat Whiting, 6-0, 6-1; Sands beat Parsons, 
6-3, 5-6, 6-4; Q. A. Shaw, Jr., beat Trevor, 6-3, 6-4. 
Second Rotmd, Glyn beat Sears, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3; Shaw beat 
Sands, 6-1, 6-0. Final Round, Q. A. Shaw, Jr., beat 
W. E. Glyn, 5-7, 6-0, 8-6, 6-2. For Second Place: Glyn 
beat Trevor, 2-6, 6-1, 6-2. 

Preliminary Round: Doubles: Fowler and Worthington 
beat Pollock and Reeves, 6-3, 6-5 ; Glyn and Sands 
beat Betts and Barns, 6-4, 6-4; Kuhn and Burden beat 
Trevor and Whitney, 6-4, 1-6, 6-1. First Round, 
Fowler and Worthington beat Glyn and Sands, 6-5, 
6-1; Sears and Shaw beat Kuhn and Burden, 6-4, 6-3. 
Final Round, P. S. Sears and Q. A. Shaw, Jr., beat W. 
K. Fowler and F. Worthington, 6-1, 6-3, 7-9, 6-1. 



48 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

T]ie Belmont Cricket Club Lawn- Tennis Tournament^ 
September lo, 1888. 

In the final rounds of the gentlemen's singles, which 
were handicapped, M. D. Smith beat J. E. Pennock, 
6-1,7-5. 

In the ladies' singles, handicap, Miss B. L. Townsend 
won over Miss N. F. Hansell, in the final, by the close 
score of 9-7, 8-6. In the gentlemen's doubles, handi- 
cap, R. W. Steel and I. C. Yarnell beat J. E. Pennock and 
W. Mclntyre in the final, 6-3, 6-1. Ladies' handicap 
doubles w^ere won by Miss B. L. Townsend and Miss 
M. L. Ballard, w^ho defeated Miss L. Knight and Miss 
H. S. Taylor in the final, 4-6; 6-4, 6-4. In the mixed 
handicap doubles Miss Hansell and Mr. Smith beat 
Miss Dreka and Mr. Goforth in the final, 3-6, 6-2, 6-3. 

Rhode Island Lawn-Tennis Tournament arid Champion- 
ship, September 10, 1888. 

Preliminary Round: Singles: Gammell beat Eddy, 
6-1. 2-6, 6-3; W. Weeden beat I. P. Bassett, 6-2, 6-4. 
First Round, Manchester beat Waterman, 6-4, 6-0; 
Weeden beat Kendall, 6-2, 6-0; Swan beat Shepard, 
5-6, 6-2, 9-7; Wing beat E. Bassett, 6-4, 6-2; Hill beat 
Eaton, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3; Ormsbee beat A. P. Weeden, 6-2; 
6-0; Smith beat Gammell, 6-2, 5-6, 6-1; McGurgen beat 
Bonner, 6-0, 6-1. Second Rouiid, W. Weeden beat Man- 
chester, 5-6, 6-2, 6-1; Ormsbee beat Hill, 6-2, 5-6, 9-7 
Wing beat Swan, 6-0, 6-3; Smith beat McGurgen, 6-2 
5-6, 6-2. Third Round, Ormsbee beat Wing, 6-0, 6-4 
Weeden beat Smith, 6-5, 3-6, 6-1. Final Round, 
Weeden beat Ormsbee, 6-0, Z-6, 4-6, 2-6, (>-i. Second 
Prize: Kendall beat Ormsbee, 5-6, 6-4, 6-2. Consola- 



LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 49 

Hon Prize: In the final of the consolation prize Eddy- 
beat Bassett, 6-2^ 8-6, (>-2. 

In the final of the gentlemen's doubles, Manchester 
and Kendall won over the Weeden Brothers by the 
score 6-4, 6-4, 7-5. For the second prize the Weeden 
Brothers defeated Ormsbee and Smith, 6-1, 6-2. 

The Championship Doubles^ Staten Island^ September 12, 

1888. 

Preliminary Round : Doubles : A. Torrence and M. H. 
Torrence, Jr., beat M. S. Baton and C. E. Sands, 3-6, 
1-6, 6-1, 7-5, 9-7; E. P. MacMullen and C. Hobart beat 
W. E. Glyn and- M. F. Goodbody, 6-3, 7-5, 6-0; R. V. 
Beach and C. H. Ludington, Jr., beat J. Dwight and 
Q. A. Shaw, Jr., by default. First Rounds H. A. Taylor 
and J. S. Clark beat Torrence and Torrence, 6-3, 6-4, 
6-3; V. G. Hall and O. S. Campbell beat C. J. Post and 
W. A. Tomes, 6-2, 6-1, 6-1; B. F. Cummins and E. W. 
McClellan beat Beach and Ludington, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, 
7-9, 6-4; MacMullen and Hobart beat H. W. Slocum, 
Jr., and Foxhall Keene, 6-2, 3-6, 4-6, 7-5, 6-3. Second 
Round, Hall and Campbell beat Taylor and Clark, 6-3, 
3-6, 7-5, 6-3; MacMullen and Hobart beat Cummins 
and McClellan, 6-2, 5-7, 6-4, 6-3. Final and Champion- 
ship Roujid, V. G. Hall and O. S. Campbell beat E. P. 
MacMullen and C. Hobart, 6-4, 6-2, 6-4. Consolation 
Prize: Beach and Ludington beat Post and Tomes, 6-1, 
6-4, 8-10, 8-10, 8-6. For Second Prize : Hobart and 
MacMullen beat Post and Tomes, 6-3,6-3,6-4. Taylor 
and Clark defaulted. 

The champion doubles were played on the beautiful 
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50 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

Club, and though the entry list was not large yet the 
quality of the playing was excellent. One of the sur- 
prises of the tournament was the defeat of Slocum and 
Keene by Hobart and MacMullen. But in justice to 
the latter team it must be said in their favor that they 
certainly played excellent tennis. No matter where 
the ball was returned by Slocum or Keene, MacMul- 
len or his partner was always there. The rallies, the 
volleying, and the accuracy displayed evoked loud 
applause ; and many Were of the opinion that no 
such tennis had ever been seen before like it on the 
island. While this excitement prevailed Hall and 
Campbell were playing Clark and Taylor on another 
court. There is little to be said in praise of this match. 
The playing of Clark was very weak, and Taylor, some- 
what discouraged by his opponent's errors, towards the 
end of the match began playing loosely also. Hall and 
Campbell played a steady determined game, with an 
occasional brilliant volley by Campbell. In the final 
between MacMullen and Hobart against Hall and 
Campbell a close contest was looked for. The playing, 
however, was very one-sided, Campbell and Hall win- 
ning with the greatest of ease, which gave them the 
right of being called the champions of America for the 
season of 1888. 

The Second Animal Invitation Totirnainent of the New 
Hamburgh Lawn-TeTinis Club, September 18, 1888. 

This tournament was greatly delayed owing to con- 
tinual rains which fell throughout the week. The 
courts were heavy, and very good playing was out of 
the question. In the final singles V. G. Hall and O. S. 



LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 5 1 

Campbell had a hard fight, the latter won by the close 
score of 4-6, 7-5, 7-5, 11-9. In the doubles E. L. Hall 
and V. G. Hall were beaten in the finals by S. Steele 
and O. S. Campbell, 1-6, 6-2, 6-4. Miss E. C. Roose- 
velt had but little difficulty in winning the ladies' 
singles, and in the doubles, with her sister Miss Grace, 
they had everything their own way. In the mixed 
doubles Miss Camilla Moss and Mr. C. E. Sands dis- 
tinguished themselves in winning hands down. The 
prizes were exceedingly pretty, and showed excellent 
taste in the selection. Mrs. Sam. Colgate, in order to 
wind things up in a jolly way, threw open her large 
and gorgeous mansion and invited all the players and 
guests staying at the different houses to participate in 
a formal dance, which goes without saying was a great 
success. 

New York Lawn-Tennis Club Tournament^ September 19, 

1888. 

Preliminary Round: Singles: C. R. Runyon beat R. 
V. Beach, 6-0, 7-5. First Rounds Bunyon beat W. A. 
Tomes, 6-2, 6-1; A. Torrance beat C. Fox, 6-1; 6-0; D. 
Miller beat J. F. Hobart, 6-1, 6-0; C. Hobart beat P. D. 
Chase, 6-1, 6-2; C. J. Post, Jr., beat F. A. Kellogg, 6-1, 
6-0; E. P. MacMullen beat E. H. Coffey, 6-2, 6-2; S. 
W. Smith beat F. J. Scott, 6-3, 6-2; W. L. Thacher beat 
P. B. Ruggles, 6-3, 6-1. Second Rounds Runyon beat 
Torrance, 6-2, 6-2; Hobart beat Miller, 6-2, 11-9 ; Mac- 
Mullen beat Post, 6-1, 6-2; Thacher beat Smith, 6-2, 
6-1. Third Round y MacMullen beat Thacher, 6-0, 6-3; 
Hobart beat Runyon, 6-2, 6-0. Final Rounds E. P. 
MacMullen beat C. Hobart, 7-5, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3. 



52 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

First Round: Dotibles: MacMullen and C. Hobart beat 
Coffey and Ruggles, 6-i, 6-3; Post and Prosser beat J. 
Hobart and Stall, 6-2, 6-4; Tomes aud Miller beat 
Chase and Smith, 6-2, 6-4; A. and H. Torrance beat 
Beard and Thacher, 12-10, 2-6, 6-3. Second Round, 
Post and Prosser beat A. and H. Torrance, 6-2, 6-2; 
MacMullen and Hobart beat Tomes and Miller, 7-5, 
4-6, 6-1. Filial Round, MacMullen and Hobart beat 
Post and Prosser, 7-5, 6-4, 6-1. 

First Round : Mixed Doubles: Miss Hobart and Mr. C. 
Hobart beat Mrs. Badgeley and Mr. H. Torrance, 6-2, 
6-5; Miss V. Hobart and Mr. MacMullen beat Miss 
Bailey and Mr. Post, 6-4, 6-3; Miss Homans and Mr. 
Prosser beat Miss Voorhees and Mr. Runyon, 6-3, 6-4. 
Second Round, Miss Homans and Mr. Prosser beat Miss 
McKinley and Mr. Scott, 6-3, 6-4; Miss V. Hobart and 
Mr. MacMullen beat Miss Hobart and Mr. C. Hobart, 
6-4, 6-4. Final Round : In the final round of the ladies* 
doubles, Mrs. Badgeley and Miss Voorhees beat Miss 
Hobart and Miss V. Hobart, 5-6, 6-1, 6-2. 

Championship of the Hudson River, given by the Hudson 
River Lawn-Tennis Association, at Hastings, September 
25, 1888. 

The above Association was formed last summer, and 
comprises all clubs from Albany to Riverdale which are 
situated on the Hudson River. The first tournament 
was held last Fall on the grounds of the Far and Near 
at Hastings. Mr. V. G. Hall won the singles and cham^ 
pionship, beating in the finals his brother E. L. Hall, 
score 6-4, 6-3, 6-4. In the doubles, V. G. Hall and E. 
L. Hall defeated C. E. Sands and R. C. Sands in the 



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final score, 6-4, 2-6, 3-6, 6-5, 6-3. Ladles' singles won 
by Miss E. C. Roosevelt of Poughkeepsie. Ladies' 
doubles won by Miss E. C. Roosevelt and Miss G. 
Roosevelt. Mixed doubles won by Miss E. C. Roose- 
velt and Mr. C. E. Sands. 



Championship of the Southern States, September 27, 1888. 

Preliminary Round : Singles: Pennington beat Wort- 
man, 6-1, 4-6, 6-3; Hoppin beat McCauley, 6-2, 6-3; 
Ludington beat White, by default; Boag beat McLane, 
6-4, 6-5. First Round, Beach beat Goodfellow, 6-2, 
6-1; Metcalf beat Wootten, 6-1, 6-1; Morris beat O. 
Brown, by default; Mansfield beat Tomes, 6-1, 6-0; 
Goodfellow beat Stevens, be default ; Woodward beat 
R. Brown, by default ; A. H. Post beat Menocal, by 
default; Hoppin beat Pennington, 6-0, 6-2; Ludington 
beat Boag, 6-1, 6-2; Nichols beat Waggaman, 6-1, 6-0 
J. Smith beat Kellogg, 6-4, 5-6, 6-1; Davidson beat 
Spoffard, 6-2, 4-6, 6-1; Miller beat Sherbley, by default 
Kenyon beat H. Smith, 6-1, 6-1. Rives beat Ditson 
6-0, 6-2; Wright beat Elliott, by default. Second^Roimd, 
Beach heat Metcalf, 6-0, 6-2; Mansfield beat Morris, 6-1 
6-1; Woodward beat Goodfellow, 6-1, 6-4; Hoppin beat 
Post, 6-0, 6-4; Ludington beat Nichols, 6-1, 6-2; Smith 
beat Davidson, 6-3, 6-5; Miller beat Kenyon, 5-7, 6-1, 
6-1; Rives beat Wright, by default. Third Round, 
Mansfield beat Beach, 6-4; 6-1; Hoppin beat Woodward, 
6-0, 6-2; Smith beat Ludington, 6-i, 6-3; Miller beat 
Rives, 6-2, 6-1. Fourth Round, Mansfield beat Hoppin, 
6-0, 6-0; Miller beat Smith, 6-1, 6-4. Final attd Cham- 
pionship Round, F. Mansfield beat D. Miller, 6-1, 6-4, 
6-2. 



i4 Lawn tennis in America. 

First Round: Doubles: Mansfield and Hoppin beat 
Ludington and Beach, 6-i, 6-2; Spofford and Boag beat 
Pennington and Post, by default; Miller and Tomes beat 
Sherbleyand Wooton, 6-1, 6-1; Smith and Elliott beat 
Kenyon and Nelson, by default; Woodward and Good- 
fellow beat Murdoch and Durant, by default; Davidson 
and Metcalf beat McCauley and Menocal, 6-5, 5-6,6-4; 
Rives and Wortman beat Nichols and Kellogg, 6-2, 3-6, 
6-4; Ditson and McLane beat Borden and Borden, 6-5, 
6-3. Second Round, Mansfield and Hoppin beat Spof- 
ford and Boag, 6-1, 6-1; Miller and Tomes beat Smith 
and Elliott, by default. Davidson and Metcalf beat 
Woodward and Goodfellow, 6-1, 6-5; Rives and Wort- 
man beat Ditson and McLane, 6-1, 6-3. Third Round, 
Mansfield and Hoppin beat Miller and Tomes, 6-0, 6-0; 
Davidson and Metcalf beat Rives and Wortman, 6-4, 
3-6, 6-5. Final Round, Mansfield and Hoppin beat 
Davidson and Metcalf, 6-2, 6-2, 3-6, 6-2. 

Inter-Collegiate Lawn-Tennis Tournament ^ October 8, 

1888. 

Preliminary Round : Singles: Vernon, Princeton, beat 
Woodruff, Amherst, 6-3, 7-5; Ludington, Yale, beat 
Mapes, Williams, 6-1, 6-0; Hall, Columbia, beat Brown, 
Harvard, 6-2, 6-2; Campbell, Columbia, beat Weeden, 
Brown, 8-6, 7-5; Hurd; Yale, beat Banks, Williams, 6-1, 
6-2 ; Sears, Harvard, beat Johnson, Princeton, 6-1; 6-2; 
M. Wright, Trinity, beat Deane, Amherst, 7-5, 6-4. 
First Round, Hovey, Brown, beat Vernon, 6-3, 6-3; 
Hall beat Ludington, 6-3, 6-3; Campbell beat Hurd, 
6-3, 3-6, 6-3; Sears beat Wright, 6-2, 6-2. Second Round, 
Hall beat Hovey, 6-3, 6-2; Sears beat Campbell, 6-3, 5-7, 
8-6, 6-4. Final and Championship Round, P. S. Scars, 



LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 55 

Harvard, beat V. G. Hall, Columbia, 7-5, 4-6, 6-2, 4-6, 
6-2. Preliminary Round : Doubles: Campbell and Hall, 
Columbia, beat Banks and Mapes, Williams, 6-2, 6-4; 
Sears and Shaw, Harvard, beat Wright and Post, Col- 
umbia, 3-6, 6-2^ 6-3; Hurd and Huntington, Yale, beat 
Weeden and Hovey, Brown, 6-1, 6-3. First Rounds 
Chase and Taylor, Harvard, beat Woodruff and Deane, 
Amherst, 6 o, 6-1; Campbell and Hall beat Ludington 
and Beach, Yale, 8-6, 6-3; Sears and Shaw beat Hurd 
and Huntington, 6-3, 6-4 ; Vernon and Johnson, Prince- 
ton, beat M. Wright and Scott, Trinity, 6-4, 6-4. Second 
Rounds Campbell and Hall beat Chase and Tailer, 6-4, 
6-4; Sears and Shaw beat Vernon and Johnson, 6-1, 
6-2. Final and Championship Rounds O. S. Campbell 
and V, G. Hall, Columbia, beat P. S. Sears and Q. A. 
Shaw, Jr., Harvard, 7-5, 6-2, 6-3. 

The inter-collegiate tournament, as a general rule, 
closes the lawn-tennis season ; and, for the past few 
years, has ranked as one of the most prominent tourna- 
ments of the year. Last season more interes ; than has 
been shown for a number of years was conspicuous 
owing to the fact that many thought Hall and Camp- 
bell, who represented Columbia, and had recently won 
the championship of America might be beaten by Sears 
and Shaw, the crimson representatives. And another 
reason for the great amount of interest taken was pos- 
sibly owing to the fact that Sears, Campbell and Hall 
were all very evenly matched in the singles and no one 
could with any certainty name or pick out the winner. 
All through the tournament delightful weather pre- 
vailed, so that the grounds of the New Haven Lawn- 
Tennis Club were surrounded, morning and afternoon, 
by a large crowd of spectators, who were generous and 



56 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

always ready to applaud whenever an occasion occurred. 
All the colleges sent representatives, and the playing, 
taking it as a whole, was very good. In the second 
round the match between Sears and Campbell was a hot 
one, but Sears finally managed to win, although Camp- 
bell made things very lively for him. This brought Hall 
and Sears together in the final, which was one of the 
longest matches of the tournament. Each player won 
from the court w^ith the sun at his back until two sets 
all, when, on the final set, courts were changed every 
game. The score reached two games all when Hall 
seemed to weaken, which gave Sears the set and match. 
At times the playing was excellent, and the rallies 
aroused loud applause. 

In the doubles, those who had come prepared to back 
the Harvard men were sadly disappointed, for Campbell 
and Hall never gave them a chance, and from the very 
beginning outplayed them in every way. Harvard, in 
my opinion, made rather a mistake in sending down 
for the singles. Brown and Sears, instead of Shaw and 
Sears. For the second prize in the doubles. Sears and 
Shaw had but little difificulty in winning. Campbell 
won second place in the singles, Hall defaulting. 



TOURNAMENT WINNERS FOR 1888. 

SUMMARY. 

February 22, Tennis Building Tournament. — Doubles: 
C. E. Sands and H. S. LeRoy. 

May 24, Flushing. — Singles: A. W. Post. Ladies' 
Singles: Miss Lynch. 

June 4, Country Club (Invitation). — Singles: O. S. 
Campbell. 

June 12, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. — Ladies' Singles: 
Miss Townsend. Mixed Doubles: Miss M.Wright and 
Mr. J. S. Clark. Doubles: Clark and Fielding. 

June 13, St. George's, Hoboken, Championship Middle 
States. — Singles: E. P. MacMullen. 

June 20, New Haven, Championship of the New Eng- 
land States. — Singles : E. P. MacMullen, Champion ; 
H. W. Slocum, Jr. Doubles: O. S. Campbell and V. G. 
Hall. 

June 20, Orange. — Singles: H. A. Taylor. Doubles: 
H. A. Taylor and C. E. Sands. 

June 29, Montclair. — Singles: C. Hobart. Doubles : 
A. W. Post and C. Hobart. 

July 4, Chicago, Championship of the Western States. 
— Singles : E. W. McClellan, Champio7i ; C. A. Chase. 
Doubles: McClellan and Cummins. 

July 4, Englewood. — Singles: O. S. Campbell. Doubles: 
A. E. Wright and O. S. Campbell. 

July 10, Wellesley. — Singles: P. S. Sears. Doubles : 
Q. A. Shaw, Jr., and P. S. Sears. 

July II, Elberon. — Singles: O. S. Campbell. Doubles: 
A. E. Wright and O. S. Campbell. 



58 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

July 17, Rockaway. — Singles: H. W. Slocum, Jr. 
Doubles : F. Keene and H. W. Slocum, Jr. 

July 24, Southampton. — Championship of Long 
Island. — Singles: J. S. Clark, Champion; H. A. Taylor. 
Dotibles : F. Keene and H. W. Slocum, Jr. Ladies' 
Singles: Miss Lente. Ladies' Doubles: Miss Smallwood 
and Miss Lente. Mixed Doubles: Miss Betts and Mr. 
Slocum. 

July 31, Wright and Ditson's. — Singles: C. A. Chase. 
Doubles: P. S. Sears and.Q. A. Shaw, Jr. 

August 7, Nahant (Invitation). — Singles: C. A. Chase. 

August 14, Narragansett. — Singles : H. A. Taylor. 
Ladies' Singles : Miss A. Robinson. Mixed Doubles: 
Miss E. C. Roosevelt and Mr. O. S. Campbell. 

August 16, Bar Harbor. — Singles: M. S. Paton, Cham- 
pion', R. L. Beeckman. Doubles: M. S. Paton and G. 
Robbins. 

August 18, Winnipeg. — Singles: (Handicap), W. Bain. 
Mixed Doubles : Mr. R. D. Applegath and Mrs. Ruttan. 
Doubles: D. Applegath and M. Putnam. Ladies Singles: 
Miss F. Adams. 

August 20, Newport, Championship of America. — 
Singles: H. W. Slocum, Jr. Runner-up: H. A. Taylor. 

August 23, Seabright. — Singles: T.Clark. Doubles: 
Alexander and Byrd. Mixed Doubles : Miss Clarkson 
and Mr. B. Strong. Ladies' Singles : Miss Clarkson. 

August 30, Staten Island. — Singles: J. W. Raymond. 
Doubles: C. Hobart and E. P. MacMuUen. 

September 3, Championship of Central New York. 
Singles: W. L. Kingsley. Doubles: G. L. Kingsley and 
G. Ethridge. 

September 3, Delaware. — Singles: G. Remak, Jr. 
Doubles: M. D. Smith and E. C. Smith. 




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September 4, Toronto. — Singles: Wood, Champion; 
Hyman. Doubles : Wood and Davis. 

September 4, Lenox. — Si?igles : Q. A. Shaw, Jr. 
Doubles: Q. A. Shaw, Jr., and P. S. Sears. 

September 10, Philadelphia. — Singles: (Handicap) M. 

D. Smith. Ladies' Singles; (Handicap) Miss B. L. 
Townsend. Doubles: (Handicap) R. W. Steel and I. C. 
Yarnell. Ladies' Doubles: (Handicap) Miss B. L. Towns- 
end and Miss M. L. Ballard. Mixed Doubles; (Handi- 
cap) Miss Hansell and Mr. Smith. 

September 10, Rhode Island. — Singles: W. Weeden. 
Doubles; Manchester and Kendall. 

September 12, Staten Island. — Doubles; Championship 
of America, V. G. Hall and O. S. Campbell. Second; 

E. P. MacMullen and C. Hobart. 

September 18, New Hamburgh. — Singles: O. S. Camp- 
bell. Doubles ; Steel and O. S. Campbell. Mixed 
Doubles; Miss Moss and Mr. C. Sands. 

September 18, Rochester. — Singles; C. A. Chase. 
Doubles: Chase and Macomber. 

September 19, New York T. C. — Singles: E. P. Mac- 
Mullen. Doubles; C. Hobart and E. P. MacMullen. 
Mixed Doubles; Miss V. Hobart and Mr. MacMullen. 
Ladies' Doubles; Mrs. Badgley and Miss Voorhees. 

September 25, Hastings, Championship of the Hudson 
River. — Singles; V. G. Hall. Doubles: E. L. Hall and 
V. G. Hall. 

September 27, Washington, Championship of the 
Southern States. — Singles; F. Mansfield. Doubles; F. 
Mansfield and F. L. V. Hoppin. 

October 8, New Haven, Championship of the Col- 
leges. — Singles; P. S. Sears. Do^ibles; O. S. Campbell 
and V. G. Hall. 



CHAMPIONSHIPS, 1888. 

SINGLES. 

America — Henry W. Slocum, Jr., St. George's Cricket 
Club. 

Inter-Collegiate — P. S. Sears, Harvard University. 

Middle States— E. P. MacMullen, New York Lawn 
Tennis Club. 

New England, Henry W. Slocum, Jr., St. George's 
Cricket Club. 

Western States — Charles A. Chase, North-End Tennis 
Club. 

Southern States — Fred. Mansfield, Longwood C. C. 

Long Island — H. A. Taylor, Country Club of West- 
chester Co. 

DOUBLES. 

America — V. G. Hall and O. S. Campbell, St. George's 
C. C. 

New England— O. S. Campbell and V. G. Hall, St. 
George's C. C. 

Western States — B. F. Cummins and E. W. McLellan, 
Kenwood T. C. 

Southern States — Fred. Mansfield and F. L. V. Hop- 
pin, Longwood C. C. 

Long Island — H. W. Slocum, Jr., and F. Kcene, St. 
George's C. C. 

Inter-Collegiate — V. G. Hall and O. S. Campbell, 
Columbia College, L. T. C. 

ladies' singles. 
America — Miss Bertha L. Townsend, Belmont C. C. 



PART SECOND. 

HINTS ON THE MANAGEMENT OF 
TOURNAMENTS. 



The following suggestions are intended principally for 
the assistance of the committee and officers of open 
prize meetings, especially of those who have had no 
experience in the management of such undertakings. 
They are also applicable, in many respects, to club tour- 
naments. 

PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS. 

It is important that the Tournament Committee 
should consist of energetic men — three or four in num- 
ber — who can undertake to be present on the ground 
as long as play is in progress; that the secretary should 
be capable and industrious ; and that the necessary 
funds should be assured in advance. The next thing is 
to choose a date. This should be done as soon as pos- 
sible after the close of the season prior to that in which 
the proposed tournament is to be held. As soon as the 
date is fixed it is advisable that it should be made 
known to other clubs, in order to prevent their meet- 
ings from being arranged for the same days. 

As early in the season as is convenient, the commit- 
tee should decide on the number and nature of the 
events and the value of the prizes, and should forth- 
with issue their prospectus, sending a copy, together 
■yyith some small posters, to all the principal clubs, in 



62 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

order that they may be displayed in club-rooms and 
pavilions. An advertisement of the meeting, with par- 
ticulars of events, prizes, etc., should be inserted in the 
lawn-tennis journals for a few weeks before the closing 
of the entries. 

PREPARATION OF THE GROUND 

Requires careful attention. The courts intended for 
use during the tournament should be selected early in 
the year. A few days' work before the dry March 
winds set in is often more effective than as many weeks' 
labor later in the season. If the shape of the ground 
permits, it is desirable to have the courts arranged in 
one or more rows, side by side, with the ends of the 
courts pointing north and south. There should be a 
clear space of 24 feet, if possible, but not less than 13 
feet between each court (unless absolutely necessary, 
the minimum should be 18 feet between the courts), 
and a run back of from 21 to 30 feet at each end. The 
courts should be played on until within a week or ten 
days of the meeting (for it is a mistake to leave them 
quite untrodden), but not sufficiently to allow them to 
become at all bare near the base-lines. The next con- 
sideration is to obtain the necessary 

APPLIANCES, 

Which include posts, nets, centre stays, together with 
stop-nets and standards for the boundary behind each 
base-line ; also, scoring seats, and, if possible, marking- 
boards, to indicate the scores for each court. The posts 
should be all of the same pattern, and if the courts are 
side by side should be in a straight line across the whole 
length of the ground. 



LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 63 

The stop-netting should be seven or eight feet, and 
the scoring-seats not less than six feet high. Plenty of 
scoring-books, at least one for each court, and tJiree 
times that number of pencils^ should be provided, as well 
as some large pieces of cardboard, about 18 inches 
square, on which to write the draw and the results of 
each event, with a supply of drawing-pins to fasten 
them to the notice-boards, two of which also are neces- 
sary. Unless there be plenty of pavilion space at the 
disposal of the committee, there will be required, be- 
sides the ordinary dressing accommodation for com- 
petitors, a committee's tent and a referee's tent, the 
latter to be placed, if possible, so as to command a view 
of the whole of the ground. A " press " tent should 
also be added, when practicable. A plentiful supply of 
balls is essential, and the make of the ball should be 
notified on the prospectus. The comfort of the com- 
petitors will be studied by engaging ball-boys, two or 
three for each court, and it is desirable to give them a 
few days* coaching and practice in their duties before 
the tournament commences. 

THE PRIZES 

Should be carefully selected. Experience has shown 
that useful rather than ornamental articles usually give 
the greatest satisfaction. These can be best obtained 
of some of the large firms who especially cultivate this 
class of trade, and who consequently keep a large 
assortment of articles suitable for prizes. The desire 
to " give local tradesmen a turn " frequently results in 
the acquisition of a very poor lot in comparison with 
what a first-rate house would supply for the money. 
There are, of course, exceptions to this rule, and in 



64 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

some towns an excellent selection can be made. When 
the prizes are obtained from local tradesmen it is desir- 
able to make provision for any article to be exchanged 
at the will of the winner for another of similar value. 
As relating to the same subject of prizes, the suggestion 
may be added here that the committee should decide 
whether or not they are to be publicly presented at the 
conclusion of the meeting. Winners are frequently 
obliged to leave before the presentation, but still desire 
to take their prizes with them. For this reason a public 
presentation is not always advisable, but if it is decided 
upon no prizes should be allowed to be removed before 
the ceremony. 

THE DRAW 

Usually takes place two days before the meeting com- 
mences, so as to allow time for the programmes to be 
printed and notices to be sent to the competitors, any 
of whom may be present at the draw if they wish. The 
entries must, therefore, close on the morning of the 
day on which the draws are made. Of course, the 
Bagnall-Wild system should be adopted, and the reader 
may, therefore, be glad of brief directions for working 
it. Write on separate small pieces of paper the names 
of the entered competitors for an event and place them 
in a hat. From this, after it has been well shaken, let 
some disinterested person draw out the papers one by 
one, and write the names in order as they are drawn, 
one under the other, on a sheet of paper. On this list 
mark off the byes (if any) at top and bottom equally ; 
or, in the case of an odd number of entries, the next 
lower power of two; the number of byes, by sub- 
tracting the result last obtained from the same power 



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LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 65 

of two. For instance, if there be ninteen entries, the 
power of two next below 19 is 16; therefore 19 — 16=3 
(matches); 16 — 3=13 (byes). Therefore in the first 
round there will be three matches and 13 byes, and of 
these byes the first will be awarded to the player whose 
name stands at the head of the list, the other to the 
two at the bottom. A copy of the draw should, if pos- 
sible, be sent to the local papers, and to such other 
papers as devote space to reports of the game. 

THE OPENING DAY 

Is the most trying one, but the difficulties to be encoun- 
tered may be considerably reduced by attending to the 
following points : 

1. Have your courts marked out, posts, nets, tents, 
etc., erected, and all the ground arrangements com- 
pleted not later than the day before the commencement 
day. 

2. Notify to the competitors the time that play will 
commence, and inform them that they must be present 
and report themselves to the referee at that time. 

3. Have plenty of umpires ready to officiate, and the 
ball-boys told off to their respective courts. 

4. Arrange for one of the committee to undertake 
the charge of the balls, so that they be carefully issued, 
for .the cost of these forms a large proportion of the 
expenditure of a tournament. 

5. If you have a referee, appoint a committeeman to 
assist him, and also provide him with a sharp boy, who 
will be useful in many ways. 

6. Have your programmes printed and on sale at the 
grounds as soon as the competitors begin to arrive. 



66 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

7. Have each court numbered, and a large numeral 
attached to one of the posts, or placed in some promi- 
nent position, and have two ground plans showing the 
numbers and position of each court, one to be fixed on 
a notice-board and the other in the referee's tent. 

DURING THE TOURNAMENT 

It will be necessary to impress upon players who remain 
in the competitions that they must not absent them- 
selves without first ascertaining from the referee, or 
managing ofificial, when they may be required to play, 
and that any player who is absent when wanted for a 
match will be disqualified. 

If there are handicaps, the umpires must get the 
actual odds between the competitors in the match 
which they are to score entered into the score-book by 
the referee or managing official before proceeding to 
the court. Neglect to do this often leads to most un- 
pleasant results. 



SOMETHING ABOUT AMATEURS. 



A book about the game that above all others is free 
from the inroads of the professional athlete, and, as we 
instinctively feel, will always remain so, would not be 
complete unless we backed up our instincts with a little 
reasoning as to why it has gained this position. When 
we find an amusement, to which the college-bred man 
can turn after his graduation with the assurance that 
his opponents are not apt to be out-and-out profes- 
sionals, or composed of that growing hybrid class, the 
members of which obtain board and lodging for the 
summer at the hands of their athletic club, in return for 
their skill in the box or behind the bat, or on the track, 
with " no need of saying anything about it," we per- 
ceive the fact that there is and can remain true amateur 
athletics. Now, the causes of this are, first, that the 
game has a nice parentage, with an ancestry of a thous- 
and years in the tennis courts of England and France 
almost from the days of Charlemagne, and has been 
nurtured under influences and ideas and people where 
sports have not been played for business but for pleas- 
ure. The games that grow up in days when it is 
important to know what can be " made out of them," 
are framed with rules that, fairly or not, make a good 
deal out of them. Moreover, lawn tennis was trans- 
planted to America under nice auspices, and has re- 
mained, under the charge of its best-known votaries, 
with that spirit of fair-play that is instinctive in their 



68 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

characters. I once overheard a girl remark at a match, 
" What a pity such a clever fellow devotes his whole 
life to tennis !" In this instance the facts did not war- 
rant her commiseration, and yet had they done so, this 
man was really influencing, by his example as a gentle- 
man in a place where the ingredients thereof come 
necessarily most prominent in view, more people for 
their good than had he made a million dollars by six- 
teen hours' work a day for fifty years. It is to be hoped 
that the successors of the present champions may have 
the tone of the game to heart as closely as those of the 
last few years. More intrinsically is it the game of an 
amateur in that it is a continual pleasure in the playing, 
and not a sport where the practice is a hardship, and 
only warranted by the end of money or renown — and 
college days aside, there is little fun in athletic renown. 
There never can be, it would seem, any money to be 
made from playing the game, for the audiences w^ould 
not allow it. The team play is lacking, which, after all, 
IS the great attraction in all athletic contests from the 
point of view of a spectator. The game has nothing to 
attract the professional. 

A pleasing effect is experienced from this peculiar 
liberty, and considerable mental training as well. The 
tennis player stands before the crowd, each action open 
to criticism, and each action criticized on very personal 
grounds. Conceit, affectation, ill-temper, meanness, 
all are noticed in a game where gentlemen compete, 
having upon them the restraints that accompany the 
name, and those bad qualities, whose influence indeed 
must mar the whole round of a life, arc nowhere better 
corrected than on the tennis field. The pleasures and 
rewards of the game thus become not wholly connected 




JOSEPH S. CLARK. 



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LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 69 

with victory, defeat being not only often a mental train- 
ing, but, when well taken, a great means of gaining 
honest respect. But all this in a game where the true 
amateur, with the qualities expected of him, was not 
usual, would not be looked for nor observed. 

Yet there should be a word of warning as to a few 
small errors that some players have made, which make 
exceptions to the spirit of the amateur. A tennis player 
is not, necessarily, a man of wealth, and yet it seems that 
if, in view of his poverty, he accepts special favors — 
railroad passes, cheap hotel rates, and other ways of 
economizing — he becomes obliged to make his return 
with his skill. If a player in a tournament is stopping 
at a hotel, free of charge, he would not feel at liberty to 
withdraw his name from the contest. When he has a 
return for the advertising his presence lends, the adver- 
tising is not optional with him and his freedom is gone. 
Questionable, too, is the practice — and I will not, per- 
sonally, plead entirely guiltless — of accepting rackets 
and balls from dealers. It is a Quixotic standard that 
I am sketching, but there is a pleasure in one game of 
Quixotic character. 

More than this, we have had one or two instances 
where the amateur element is really noticeably lacking. 
It is a more serious question when a man, openly an 
agent for a dealer, takes a part in our amateur con- 
tests, even though personally of such a character as 
to make his acquaintance gladly sought It is, too, a 
more serious question when car fare and hotel rates are 
paid by a dealer, much more serious than when they 
are free. It is most serious of all if a dealer supplies 
the funds for the summer tour of a " crack " player. I 
do not give any opinion as to whether such facts make 



70 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

those connected with them professionals. It is a great 
and, I admit, an open question. But in its considera- 
tion it is well to bear in mind the rule by which in lawn 
tennis a man's acts are measured : " An amateur is one 
who has never played or taught any sport as one of his 
ordinary means of livelihood or in connection there- 
with." That rule may be very strictly construed. 

Ho\YARD A. Taylor. 

New York, May 14, 1889, • 



AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP, 1881-1888. 



SINGLES. 

1881— R. D. Sears. 1885— R. D. Sears. 

1882— R. D. Sears. 1886— R. D. Scars. 

1883— R. D. Sears. 188;— R. D. Sears. 

1884— R. D. Sears. 1888— H. W. Slocum, Jr. 

ALL COMERS. 
1881— W. E. Glyn (2nd). 1885— G. M. Brinley. 

1882— C. M. Clark (2nd). i886~R. L. Beeckman. 

1883 — James Dwight (2nd). 1887 — H. W. Slocum, Jr. 
1884— H. A. Taylor. 1888— H. A. Taylor. 

DOUBLES. 
1881— C. M. Clark and F. W. Taylor. 
1882 — R. D. Sears and James Dwight. 
1883 — R. D. Sears and James Dwight. 
1884 — R. D. Sears and James Dwight. 
1885— R. D. Sears and J. S. Clark. 
1886 — R. D. Sears and James Dwight. 
1887 — R. D. Sears and James Dwight. 
1888— O. S. Campbell and V. G. Hall. 

SECOND PLACE DOUBLES. 

1 88 1 — A. Van Rensselaer and A. E. Newbold. 
1882— W. Nightingale and G. M. Smith. 
1883 — A. Van Rensselaer and A. E. Newbold. 
1884 — A. Van Rensselaer and W. V. R. Berry. 
1885— H. W. Slocum, Jr., and W. P. Knapp. 
1886— H. A. Taylor and G. M. Brinley. 
1887— H. A. Taylor and H. W. Slocum, Jr. 
1888— C. Hobart and E. P. MacMullen, 



THE DECLINE OF THE DOUBLE 

GAME. 

Much to the regret of all lovers of Lawn Tennis, 
there has been an apparent gradual decrease of inter- 
est in the double game during the past few years. It 
may also be said, and with a good foundation of truth, 
that the skill shown in double play at the present time 
is of a quality much inferior to that exhibited by 
Sears and Dwight, the Clark brothers, and other teams 
which were so well known a few years ago. Not that 
there are no players of to-day who are individually as 
strong as the Sears, Dwights, and Clarks of five years 
ago, for that would be admitting that Lawn Tennis, as 
a game of skill, has been at a standstill. Nor could it 
safely be asserted that there are now no double teams 
which could have defeated Dwight and Sears, or the 
Clark brothers, as they played five years ago, for] since 
that time the service line volleying game has been in- 
troduced in place of the old forward and back style of 
play. But it must be conceded that we see no double 
playing at the present time, which, in strategic move- 
ments, in delicate strokes, and in all the finer points of 
team work, can compare with that shown by Dwight 
and Sears, and especially by the Clark brothers when 
they were in their prime of skill. There may be room 
for dispute about this question, but assuming the facts 
to be as I have stated, it is easy to find numerous and 
good causes for such a condition of affairs. In the 
first place, we now have no two men who continuall)- 



Lawn tennis in America. 73 

and continuously play together as did Dwight and Sears 
and the Clark brothers. Secondly, the single game ap- 
pears to have become more interesting to the average 
player, who, perhaps naturally, prefers to shine by him- 
self rather than in the company of another. Again, 
when the single and double championships were de- 
cided together at Newport, it was found that the 
players became so exhausted with their efforts in the 
singles, that their little remaining strength was insuf- 
ficient to enable them to do justice to the doubles, and 
that branch of the game suffered accordingly. Lastly, 
since the single and double championships have been 
severed, a period in the fall season has been selected 
for the double tournament, when many of the players 
have exhausted their vacations and can ill afford the 
necessary time, and when a great majority of them 
have had more than enough of Lawn Tennis for one sea- 
son. As a natural consequence the entries have been 
few in number. It is to remedy this unfortunate con- 
dition of the double game that the United States 
National Lawn Tennis Association, at its last annual 
convention, resolved that the double tournament 
should hereafter be held in the Spring, instead of in 
the Fall, as hitherto. 

It is greatly to be hoped that this move will be bene- 
ficial in awakening new interest, for it is unquestionably 
true that the double game is more pleasing to the aver- 
age spectator than the single, and debatably true that 
it affords more opportunity for the exercise of strategy 
and skill. It moreover exerts a beneficial influence, 
mentally and morally, as well as physically, for good 
team work requires good head work, and the partners 
who best pull together are those who find the least fault 



74 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

with each other and hold the tightest rein on their tem- 
pers. Indeed, the double game is a branch of lawn 
tennis far too attractive to be allowed to fall into '' in- 
nocuous desuetude." Let us hope that the coming 
Spring will witness a grand revival in interest. 

Henry W. Slocum, Jr. 
May. 1889. 



VICTORIES OF R. D. SEARS. 

SINGLES. 

In 1 88 1 he defeated H. W. Powell, 6-0, 6-2 ; Ander- 
son, 6-1, 6-1 ; Nightingale, 6-5, 6-3; Gray, 6-3, 6-0; 
and Glyn in the final, 6-0, 6-3, 6-2. 

In 1882 he defeated L. Johnson, 6-4, 6-1 ; W. E. 
Glyn, 6-4, 6-1 ; Conover, 6-1, 6-4; Rankine, 6-0, 6-4; 
and C. M. Clark in the final, 6-1, 6-4, 6-0. 

In 1883 he defeated Farnum, 6-1, 6-4; Powell, 6-1, 
6-3; Keene, 6-0, 6-0; and in the final Dwight, 6-2, 
6-0, 9-7. 

In 1884, the all-comers became a fixture and the win- 
ner met the champion. H. A. Taylor won and Sears 
defeated him for the championship, 6-0, 1-6, 6-0, 6-2. In 
1885 G. M. Brinley was the winner and Sears defeated 
him, 6-3, 4-6, 6-0, 6-3. In 1886, R. L. Beeckman was 
the winner and Sears defeated him, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4. 
In 1887, H. W. Slocum, Jr., was the winner and Sears 
defeated him, 6-1, 6-3, 6-2. 

DOUBLES. 

In 1 88 1 Clark and Taylor beat Nightingale and 
Smith, 6-5, 6-2 ; Dwight and Sears, 6-3, 6-1 ; Conover 
and Miller, 6-4, 6-3 ; and Newbold and Van Rensse- 
laer in the final, 6-5, 6-4, 6-5. 

In 1882 Sears and Dwight beat Powell and Johnson, 
6-5, 6-1 ; Clark and Taylor, 6-5, 6-1 ; and Nightingale 
and Smith in the final, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4. 

In 1883 Sears and Dwight beat Newbold and Van 



76 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA, 

Renssalaer in the final, 6-0, (y-2, 6-2. In 1S84 Sears 
and Dwight beat Hoppin and Gillett, 6-0, 6-2; Con- 
over and Barnes, 6-0, 6-2 \ Clark and Clark, 6-1, 1-6, 
6-1 ; and Van Rensslaer and Berry in the final, 6-4, 6-1, 
8-10, 6-4. 

In 1885 Sears and Clark beat Smith and Nightingale, 
Presby and Gillett, 6-2, 6-4 ; and Knapp and Slocum, 
in the final, 6-3, 6-0, 6-2. 

In 1886 Sears and Dwight beat Hooper and Mans- 
field, 6-2, 6-1, 6-0; Clark and Berry, 6-5, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3; 
and Brinley and Taylor in the final, 7-5, 5-7, 7-5, 6-4. 

In 1887 Sears and Dwight beat Cummins and Mc- 
Clellan, 4-6, 6-3, 2-6, 6-1, 6-1 ; Coffin and Post, 4-6, 
1 1-9, 6-2, 6-4; Colgate and Brown, 6-1, 6-1, 8-6; and 
Slocum and Taylor, in the final 6-4, 3-6, 2-6, 6-3, 6-3. 

The scores which I have given above are simply 
those won by Mr. Sears in the Single and Double Cham- 
pionship of America. 



CLASSIFICATION OF THE PLAYERS 

FOR 1888. 

The ranking of the players for last season according 
to the matches won, to say the least, is an exceedingly 
difficult matter. For at one tournament in June A 
would beat B, and the following month B would turn 
the tables on A. So that in ranking the players for 
last season I consider that the individual style and play 
of the player must be taken into consideration ; also, 
his record as a player in former years. I have given 
below the opinions of several well-known players who 
have been kind enough to give me their ideas on the 
subject : 

I, H. W. Slocum, Jr.; 2, H. A.Taylor; 3, C.A.Chase; 
4, O. S. Campbell ; 5. E. P. MacMullen ; 6, J. S. Clark ; 
7, P. S. Sears ; 8, Q. A. Shaw, Jr.; 9, V. G. Hall ; 10, F. 
Mansfield; 11, A. L. Williston; 12, C. Hobart; 13, A. E. 
Wright; 14, C. E. Sands; 15, A. H. S. Post; 16, F. 
Keene ; 17, W. Post ; 18. F. L. V. Hoppin. Beeckman 
and Dwight hardly played enough in order to entitle 
them to any rank. .j-^^ 2^^^^^^^ 

I, H. W. Slocum, Jr.; 2, H. A. Taylor; 3, O. S. Camp- 
bell; 4, C. A. Chase; 5, E. P. MacMullen; 6, J. S. Clark; 
7, Philip Sears ; 8, O. A. Shaw, Jr. ; 9, V. G. Hall ; 10, C. 
Hobart; 11, W. Post; 12, A. E. Wright. 

Charles E. Sands. 
Mr. Clark writes : 

" I have this morning your letter asking me to give 
my views upon the respective playing merits of the 



78 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

tennis men of the country as shown by the results of 
last season. I hesitate to comply with the request be- 
cause I have not before me the accounts of last year's 
tournaments, and must, therefore, trust entirely to my 
recollection, and because, also, I myself am one of the 
men to be classed. However, I give you below my 
best judgment upon the question, governed somewhat, 
perhaps, by my idea of the general form shown by the 
men. 

*' Omitting Dwight and Beeckman, I think the follow- 
ing fifteen men are the best fifteen men in the country, 
and I class them as follows : Slocum, Taylor, Clark, 
Chase, Sears (P. S.), MacMuUen, Campbell, Shaw, Hall, 
Mansfield, Keene, Wright, Williston, Hobart and Hop- 
pin. Messrs. Dwight and Beeckman did not play enough 
matches to really show where they should be ranked. 

" If urged to give my opinion as to them, I should 
answer that I would gladly back either, provided I were 
in a sporting humor, against any of the men classed in 
the above list below myself. 

"Joseph S. Clark." 

I. Mr. Slocum ; 2, Mr. Taylor ; 3, Mr. Chase ; 4, Mr. 
MacMullen ; 5, Mr. P. S. Sears ; 6, Mr. Campbell ; 7, Mr. 
Clark ; 8, Mr. Hall ; 9, Mr. Shaw ; 10, Mr. Mansfield ; 1 1, 
Mr. A. E. Wright; 12, Mr. Hobart. 

I omit Beeckman's place, as he played hardly enough 
tennis to judge from. 

O. S. Campbell. 

I, Slocum; 2, Taylor; 3, Chase; 4, MacMullen, 5, 
Campbell ; 6, Clark ; 7, P. Sears ; 8. Shaw ; 9, Hall. 

^. L. Beeckman. 



REVIEW OF THE SEASON IN 
ENGLAND FOR 1888. 

To the weather of 1888 it is not possible to pay the 
same compliment as to that of last season. From the 
first open tournament in Dublin, in May, until almost 
the close of the season, in '87, the weather was delight- 
fully fine. The season of '88 has been almost the re- 
verse of '87, for hardly a tournament, after the end of 
May, was free from the serious inconveniences caused 
by heavy falls of rain. In a general survey of last sea- 
son, a few of its principal features stand prominently 
out. Next to the weather, that which first presents 
itself was the defeat of William Renshaw by W. J. 
Hamilton in the Championship Tournament at Wim- 
bledon, and the success of his twin-brother. Earnest 
Renshaw, at the same meeting. 

Another important event was the formation of the 
LawnTennis Association, under most auspicious cir- 
cumstances. My most particular remarks may be con- 
veniently distributed into three parts, under the headings 
of '' The Game," " The Play," and " The Players." 

THE GAME 

IS certainly growing in popular favor at a much greater 
pace than any other pastime has done. Every year 
shows it the more firmly established as one of our 
greatest national athletic games. 

A national outcome of this increase in popularity is 
9.n extension of the list of open tournaments, which ar^ 



80 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

now more numerous than ever, but, notwithstanding 
this multiplication, the entries have been good and the 
average of play even higher than in previous seasons. 

At six tournaments the number of competitors ex- 
ceeded a hundred. 

Eastbourne heads the list for number of competitors 
and the largest aggregate of entries, but Scarborough 
had the most matches. 

Chlswick heads the list for the highest average entry 
in proportion to the number of events, Beckenham 
being second, and Eastbourne third. 

The Liverpool meeting, although not holding the 
first position in point of numbers, is undoubtedly en- 
titled to the topmost place as the tournament of the 
year, the number of noted players present there being 
largely in excess of any other tournament. 

The championship meeting at Wimbledon had an 
excellent entry for the gentlemen's events, but the 
ladies* entry was very poor, Mrs. Hillyard alone of the 
" cracks " being among the number. 

THE PLAY 

shows that steady improvement which has character- 
ized it since the game began. That the players of the 
present day are far in advance of their predecessors of a 
few years ago is undeniable, and each successive season 
shows further progress. The three virtues of lawn ten- 
nis should be pace, placing and length, and of these the 
last named is the most important. Lobbing has greatly 
increased of late, and this department of the game is 
very necessary in doubles ; but with it the ability to 
accurately volley a high return or to kill it, if it be a 
short one, has also been developed. There is, of 




HENRY W. SLOCUM, JR. 



LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 8 1 

course, a great diversity of styles, but they may be 
classed under four heads, namely : The " all-round " 
players — of which there are very few. The greatest 
player of this class is the champion, E. Renshaw, whose 
" all-round " play last season was undoubtedly finer than 
has ever been shown by any player ; and he is closely 
followed by W. Renshaw, E. W. Lewis, W. J. Hamil- 
ton and H.« Grove. The second style would be pro- 
perly characterized the " severe," seeing that pace and 
strength are the principal factors of its success. Its 
principal disciples are H. F. Lawford and E. G. Meers, 
others of lesser note also practising it with good effect. 
The third style is the base-line playing, the chief ex- 
ponent of which is Herbert Chipp, F. A, Bowlby and 
A. W. Gore being also adepts at this department of the 
game. The fourth class is composed of those players 
who rely more upon their strokes off the ground, such 
as H. S. Barlow, A. G. Zippo, H. S. Stone, J. Baldwin, 
W. C. Taylor and others. 

That the ** all round " player is the best is obvious, 
but which of the other three styles is the most effective 
I will not attempt to decide. 

THE PLAYERS 

show little change in their personnel, although a few 
well-known names are absent altogether from, or have 
occurred very seldom, in last year's tournaments, no- 
tably E. de S. Browne, J. H. Crispe, H. P. Gaskell and 
F. M. Still. 

Of the ladies. Miss Maud Watson has been most 
missed. Miss L. Martin, too, has played but little last 
season, and the ladies have, therefore, not had the 



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opportunity of seeing how well they might volley if 
they would cultivate that stroke. As against these 
losses, we find several younger players creeping slowly 
to the front. A. G. Zippo, J. Pirn, C. J. Eames, H. S. 
Scrivener, G. W. Hillyard and A. W. Gore have all 
shown steady improvement, and all will doubtless be 
seen to greater advantage during the coming summer. 



The following table shows the standing of the players 
for the season of 1888 : 



1st class 



' E. Renshaw, scratch. 
W. J. Hamilton, [ ^ ^i^^^^^ 



2nd class 



. E. W. Lewis, 

W. Renshaw, half 15. 

E. G. Meers, 

H. F. Lawford, 

H. Chipp, 

P. B. Lyon, 

A. G. Zippo, 

H. Grove, 

H. S. Barlow, 

E. de S. Browne, 

PL W. Wilberforce, 

J. Pirn, 

J. Baldwin, 

E. G. Eames, 
H. S. Scriviner. 
T. S. Campion, 

F. A. Bowlby, 



i 



half 15 and i bisque. 



. half 1 5 and 2 bisques. 



Y 15. 



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^rd class ^ 



H. S. Stone, 

F. L. Rawson, 
W. D. Hamilton, 
W. C. Taylor, 

C. L. Sweet, 
M. S. Constable, 

G. W. Hillyard, 
C. H. Ross, 

J. R. Deykin, 



15 and I bisque. 



V 15 and 2 bisques. 



The champion, E. Renshaw, was not defeated once 
on level terms last summer, and his record against the 
first-class players is an excellent one. Against second- 
class players his average is not so good as those of the 
other men in his class. He lost two sets out of eight 
played, while Lewis lost only that number out of twelve, 
and Hamilton three out of seventeen. Neither Renshaw 
nor Lewis lost a set to a third-class man, but Hamilton 
lost two. The aggregate number of matches played by 
each of the first-class players are shown in the following 
summary : 
















Lost. 
Average, 








w 


< 

> 
< 


E. 


Renshaw. . . 


6 


. 


. 18 


6 (3.0) . 


. 143 


lOI . 


. (1.4) 


W 


.J. Hamilton, 


19 


2 


. 61 


13 (4.6) . 


. 412 


212 . 


. (1.9) 


E. 


W. Lewis . . 


17 


2 . 


.46 


8 (57) • 


. 324 


175 . 


. (1.8) 



As to the ladies. Miss L. Dod is certainly the best 
player. At Exmouth this young lady received 30 from 
the champion, E. Renshaw, and easily defeated him. 
At Manchester, she won two sets to love against W. 



84 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

Renshaw at the same odds, and at half 30 she beat W. 
Grove a set less. How far Miss Dod is above the ac- 
knowledged next best player, Mrs. Hillyard, was proved 
at Exmouth, when she owed the ex-lady champion half 
30 for a bisque and defeated her. This performance 
vies with E. Renshaw's victory over G. W. Hillyard at 
Torquay, when owing him half 40 for the glory of being 
the most remarkable match of the year. 

CHAMPIONS FOR 1888. 

ENGLAND. 

Champion, E. Renshaw. 

Lady Champion, _ - _ _ Miss L. Dod. 

Doubles Champions, E. Renshaw and W. Renshaw. 

T J- ' TN i_i r-u • i Miss L. Dod and Miss 

Ladies Doubles Champions, s iv/r t • 1 

^ j May Languishe. 

IRELAND. 

Champion, ------ E. Renshaw. 

Lady Champion, - - . - Mrs. Hillyard. 

Doubles Champions, W. J. Hamilton and T. S. Campion. 

T J- » TA ui /-t, • ( Miss M. Steedman and 

Ladies Doubles Champions, j ^^.^^ ^ Steedman. 

SCOTLAND. 

Champion, P. B. Lyon. 

Lady Champion, Miss Butler. 

Doubles Champion, . H. B. Lyon and P. B. Lyon. 

WALES. 

Champion, W. J. Hamilton. 

Lady Champion, - - - - - Mrs. Hillyard. 

COVERED COURT. 

Champion, - - - ^ ^ - E. W. Lewis. 



KNOTTY POINTS. 



1. In no case may the striker-out volley the service — 
not even if the ball is clearly going out of court. 

2. If a player standing outside the court volleys the 
ball, or catches it with his hands or stops it in any way, 
because '* it is (or he thinks it is) going out of court," 
he loses the stroke, unless he return it properly over the 
net and into his opponent's court. 

3. If a player outside the service court is struck by 
the ball served before it has touched the ground he 
loses the stroke. 

4. If the service is delivered before the striker-out is 
ready, and he tries to return it, but fails, he loses the 
stroke. 

5. If the striker-out cries *' not ready," after the ser- 
vice is delivered, but before the ball touches the ground, 
he may not claim a fault because the ball drops outside 
the service court. 

6. If the server, in attempting to serve, miss the ball 
altogether, it does not count as a fault ; but if the ball 
be touched, no matter how slightly, by the racket, it is 
a fault. 

7. If a ball served or returned drops into the proper 
court, and screws back over the net, the player whose 
turn it is to strike may reach over the net and play the 
ball, provided that neither he nor any part of his clothes 
touch the net. 

8. If a player throws his racket at the ball, and so re- 



86 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

turns the ball into the proper court, he loses the stroke. 
[This case is not provided for in the rules, but this de- 
cision has been given by referees.] 

9. If a player catches the ball on his racket, walks 
with it to the net, and reaching over drops it into 
court, he wins the stroke, unless the umpire decides that 
the ball came into contact with the racket more than 
once, in which case he loses the stroke. [This case has 
been greatly argued. Experts declare that the ball can- 
not be caught on the racket without some slight re- 
bound, in which case there is more than one contact.] 

10. If a player striking at the bail misses it and it 
goes into the net or drops out of court, he loses the 
stroke, unless the ball touched the net or dropped out 
of court before he or his racket touched the net, in 
which case the stroke counts to him. 

11. If a player's racket goes over the net after he has 
returned the ball he does not lose the stroke, providing 
the ball had passed over the net before being played 
and was properly returned. 

12. If a player's racket slips out of his hand and 
touches the net while the ball is in play he loses the 
stroke. 

13. If a player touches the posts or supports of the 
net or posts while the ball is in play he loses the stroke. 

14. If a player, to avoid touching the net, jumps over 
it after properly returning the ball he loses the stroke. 

15. If a ball is returned outside the posts, either 
above or below the level of the top of the net, and drops 
into court, it is a good return. 

16. If a ball going out of court hits the top of the 
net-post and drops into the proper court it is a good 
return. 



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17. If a ball served, or in play, strikes a ball lying in 
the court it may be returned. 

18. If a spectator impedes a player, or in any way 
interferes with the play, a " let " should be allowed and 
the stroke re-played. 

19. A let does not annul a previous fault. 

20. If a ball strikes the umpire or the umpire's chair, 
the umpire should declare it a *'let," unless he is sure 
that the ball would not have dropped into the proper 
court. 

21. The service always commences from the right- 
hand court, even though odds are given or owed, and 
the service always continues alternately from the right 
and left courts. A player taking a bisque does not 
change service courts. 

22. A fault cannot be claimed after the next service 
has been delivered. 

23. No player may claim an advantage from his own 
infringement of the laws, 

24. If the striker-out takes a bisque (which does not 
conclude the game) after his opponent has served a 
fault, the server does not change courts, but starts a 
fresh service from the court in which he served the 
fault. 

25. If an umpire erroneously calls " fault," and at 
once corrects himself and cries " play," and the striker- 
out fail to return the ball, a " let " must be allowed. 

26. If the ball strikes the card at the bottom of the 
net or the centre stay and bounds over into the proper 
court it is a good return. 

27. If in a double game the server's first service strikes 
his partner he loses the stroke, as the ball is in play 
directly it comes in contact with the server's racket. 



]PART THIRD. 

THE ST. AUGUSTINE TENNIS 
TOURNAMENT. 



The St. Augustine Tennis Tournament, held last 
March, 1889, drew together many experts of national 
reputation. The entries included such well - known 
players as O. S. Campbell, A. E. Wright, R. V. Beach, 
A. E. Kennedy and Deane Miller. The score of the 
first round was as follows: O. S. Campbell beat E. T. 
Lynch, Jr., by default; H. S. Peacock beat L. H. Dulles, 
6-0, 6-1 ; W. G. Warden beat H. T. Talmadge, by de- 
fault ; E. A. Thomson beat Roy York, 6-0, 6-1 ; T. S. 
Beckwith beat S. C. Hopkins, 6-1, 6-2; D. Miller beat 
G. Worthington, 6-2, 6-3; R. V. Beach beat A. E. Ken- 
nedy, 6-3, 6-3; A. E. Wright beat Stuart-Smith, 6-2, 
6-2; Worthington gave Miller a very interesting game, 
and the Beach and Kennedy match was a hard fight, 
many of the games reaching deuce ; and in one of the 
games deuce was called twenty-three times. The second 
round resulted as follows : O. S. Campbell beat H. S. 
Peacock, 6-2, 6-2; D. Miller beat T. S. Beckwith, 6-1, 
4-6, 6-0; E. A. Thomson beat W. G. Warden, 6-2, 6-1; 
A. E. Wright beat R. V. Beach, 6-0, 6-4. The English- 
man Peacock made a strong fight against Campbell, 
but plainly revealed lack of practice. Beach, in his 
second set with Wright, showed better playing, but 
from the outset it was apparent that Wright had the 



LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. S9 

match well in hand. Following is the score for the 
third round : O. S. Campbell beat E. A. Thomson, 6-3, 
6-3 ; A. E. Wright beat D. Miller, 7-5, 4-6, 6-4. This 
last match was, perhaps, the most exciting one played 
during the tournament, as both players Avere so evenly 
matched. Prolonged rallies and good vollying excited 
the many spectators who crowded around the courts, 
and the applause and excitement at times was remark- 
able. This left Campbell and Wright to face each other 
in the final round. Upon opening play each in turn 
began running to the net, but the other showed such 
command of the ball, and both were passed so fre- 
quently that they retired to the base lines, and played 
the greater part of the match from the back of the 
court. 

Both men played in fairly good form for so early in 
the season, and although the playing was not marked 
by any brilliant work, yet the exhibition was, on the 
whole, a very creditable one. It was quite apparent in 
the beginning of the match that Campbell had things 
pretty much all his own way, and although Wright 
played a steady, and at times brilliant game, his adver- 
sary was just that little too good for him which made 
him the winner by a score of three sets to one. The 
score in games was : O. S. Campbell beat A. E. Wright, 
6-4, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4. For the second prize in singles 
Wright beat Thomson, 6-2, 6-3. 

This now gave O. S. Campbell the right of challeng- 
ing H. G. Trevor, holder of the silver trophy represent- 
ing the National Trophical Championship. The day 
on which this match was played was a perfect one, and, 
in consequence, a brilliant audience assembled to wit- 
ness what they thought would be the best match of the 



90 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

tournament. But Trevor proved himself no match for 
Campbell, the latter outplaying him in every respect, 
which won for him in three straight sets the handsome 
trophy and championship honors. Score : Campbell 
beat Trevor, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4. In the doubles, the entries 
were very few. Campbell and Wright found but little 
difficulty in capturing the prizes. In the final round 
they defeated Trevor and Thomson, 6-3, 6-2, 6-1. 

After the tournament, the players enjoyed base ball, 
yachting, shooting and riding parties, priv^ate dances 
and dinners, and all started for the North enthusiastic 
over the phenomenal success of the tournament, and 
the courtesies showered upon them by prominent resi- 
dents, which, combined with the beauties of the old 
city, its climate, and many enjoyments, made the visit 
most unique and memorable. 



COURT TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP 
OF U. S. 

During the second week in April, in 1888, a court 
tennis tournament for the championship of the United 
States was held in Boston. 

There are but few players who make any claim to 
first-class form. Among these half a dozen, who are 
considered the best men we have, are: Mr. Hunnewell. 
Mr, Sears, Mr. Warren and Mr. Metcalf. The last- 
named gentleman lost the championship, in 1886, to 
Mr. Warren, who held it in 1886 and 1887 until Mr. 
Emmons won it during the summer of '87 at Newport. 
There never has been any form.al award of champion- 
ships, but it has been conceded that any player who 
defeated another player considered to be the best up 
to that time was thenceforward to be rated premier in 
court tennis until somebody defeated him, and the cus- 
tom for several years has been for the best players in 
the country to arrange a tournament to be played at 
Hunnewell Court in the winter, and another to be de- 
cided at the Newport Casino in the summer. ^Last 
spring this custom was followed when Messrs. Hunne- 
well, Sears, Metcalf and Warren agreed upon a tourna- 
ment, and invited Mr. Emmons to enter and compete 
with them. Mr. Emmons, at the time, was in the Far 
West hunting buffalo, and shooting wild game, which 
made it impossible for him to accept the invitation 
tendered him, and hence the tournament went on with- 
out him. Mr, R, D. Sears won, which gave him thQ 



g2 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

right of being called champion of the U. S. as a court 
tennis player. Following is a table showing in full the 
standing of the players : 





Sears. 


Warren. 


R. D. Sears, 


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I 


Fiske Warren, - - 


o 


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A. Hunnewell, - - 


o 


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well. 


Metcalf. 


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I 


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RULES FOR HANDICAPPING. 




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cap tournaments that I add the above tables, thinking 
it may be of value and assistance to those holding 
handicap tournaments. 



THE BAGNALL-WILD SYSTEM. 



The object of Mr. Bagnall-Wild's system is to avoid 
byes after the first round; and to do this, it is necessary 
by the use of byes in the first round to make number 
of matches and byes in that round equal to the power 
of 2 below the number of the entries, thus — say there 
are thirteen entries. The power of 2 below 13 is 8, con- 
sequently in the first round there would be five matches 
and three byes. To equally distribute the byes among 
matches, Mr. Bagnall-Wild suggests that the byes shall 
be placed at the top and bottom ; if even, in equal 
numbers ; if odd, one more at the bottom. 

For example, if 13 enter, the draw would be: 



3 

4 

5 
6 

7 
8 

9 
10 

II 

12 

13 



Winner. 
-A a bye A 

-Bl B 



Winner. 



Winner. 



Winner. 



B 



F 



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-M a byc- 
-N a bye- 



H 

L 

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N 



H 



RULES FOR UMPIRES. 



1. There should be two umpires for each game, 
unless there is a raised stand by the net. 

2. If there are two umpires, they should be placed in 
the following manner. The umpire on the service side 
should stand opposite the end of the base line, so as to 
be able to see if the server stands as required. It is 
his duty to watch the base line and one side line 
throughout its entire length. The other umpire should 
stand opposite the service line on the other side until 
the service is returned, and should then fall back to 
the end of the base line diagonally opposite to the 
other umpire. He is to watch his base line, and the 
whole side line on his side. In the absence of a scorer, 
the two umpires should arrange which shall call the 
score. 

3. It is the duty of the umpire to call faults, strokes, 
games and sets, when scored, or when requested to do 
so; not to call play, nor to give advice of any kind. 

4. If, in his opinion, one side has a distinct advan- 
tage, and he is appealed to to direct the players to 
change sides at the end of every game, he has no 
option whatever, but must direct them to do so, and 
remind them at the end of each game. 

5. In four-handed games there should be a third 
umpire at the net, whose only duty is to see that the 
rules regarding the net are observed. He usually, how- 
ever, also acts as referee, • 



LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 97 

6. A server must serve with one foot upon or perpen- 
dicularly over the base line, and with the other foot 
behind said line (not necessarily upon the ground). 

7. If a player serves from the wrong court, the service 
counts as a fault. 

8. The striker-out or receiver of a service need not 
take a service unless he is ready. If he attempts to 
take it he is deemed ready, and cannot afterwards claim 
that he was not. 

9. If the striker-out is not ready, the service counts 
for nothing, though it may have been a fault. 

10. A fault cannot be claimed after the next service 
is delivered. 

11. A player cannot ^W/^j/ a ball until it has passed 
the net ; he may, however, follow a ball over the net 
with his racket. 

12. A player may reach over the net and play a ball 
which has struck in his own court and bounded there- 
from into his opponent's. 

13. While the ball is in play, a player loses the stroke 
if his racket or any part of his person touches the net 
or any of its supports ; or if the ball touches any part of 
his person or anything he carries except his racket in 
the act of striking. 

14. If a player allow^s a ball to remain in his court 
and the ball in play strikes it, he may return the ball if 
possible, but loses the point if he fails. 

15. If a ball is thrown into the cowrt during play, and 
the ball in play strikes it, the player may claim a " let." 

16. If a player is obstructed by an accident, the ball 
shall be considered a "let." The umpire must deter- 
mine whether or not the player is obstructed by an 



98 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

accident. (It is not an accident if the ball bounds into 
a crowd of spectators seated around the court.) 

17. A '' let " does not annul a previous fault. 

18. A ball which passes outside or touches the post 
of the net and strikes within the court is a good return. 

19. Either contestant may demand the right to change 
sides at the end of every game of the deciding set of a 
match. The demand must be made before the set is 
commenced. 

20. If there is a distinct advantage upon either side, 
an umpire may, upon an appeal from either contestant, 
direct the players to change sides at the end of every 
game of each set. Such appeal must be made before 
the toss for choice of sides. 

21. During the progress of a set, an interval of tivo 
minutes may be allowed, if the reason therefor seems 
adequate to an umpire or referee. 

22. Between sets, an interval of seven minutes may be 
allowed. 

23. The decision of an umpire upon a question of 
fact \'s> final, and there is no appeal therefrom. 

24. While the ball is in play an umpire should not 
speak except to call a " fault," a "let," to call the ball 
*' out," or to signify that the point has been lost in some 
way. 




'^ R. LIVINGSTON BEECOIAN. 



CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS 

OF THE 

UNITED STATES 

National Lawn Tennis Association 

ORGANIZED AND ADOPTED 

At the Lawn Tennis Convention, held at the Fifth 

Avenue Hotel, New York City, Saturday, May 21, 

1881. 

REVISED AND AMENDED 

At the Second Annual Meeting, held at the Fifth Avenue 
Hotel, New York City, on Saturday, March 3, 1883, 

AND 

At the Third Annual Meeting, held at the Hotel Bruns- 
wick, New York City, Friday, March 7, 1884, 

AND 

At the Fourth Annual Meeting, held at the Hotel Bruns- 
wick, New York City, March 14, 1885, 

AND 

At the Fifth Annual Meeting, held at the Hoffman 
House, New York City, March 12, 1886, 

AND 

At the Sixth Annual Meeting, held at the Hoffman 
House, New York City, March 11, 1887, 

AND 

At the Seventh Annual Meeting, held at the Hoffman 
House, New York City, March 9, 1888, 

AND 

At the Eighth Annual Meeting, held at the Hoffman 
House, New York City, February 15, 1889. 



UNITED STATES 

NATIONAL LAWN TENNIS ASSOCIATION. 



CONSTITUTION. 



ARTICLE I. 

NAME. This organization shall be known as the 

*^ United States National Lawn Tennis Association." 

ARTICLE II. 

SECTION I. 
MEMBERS. There shall be two classes of members: 

1. Clubs. 

2. Associations of Clubs. 

SECTION 2. 

ASSOCIATIONS Au association of clubs shall consist of 

OF CLUBS 

DEFINED. f^ve or more individual clubs, any one of 
which may or may not be itself a member of the 
National Association. But no club shall otherwise be 
a member of more than one association. 

SECTION 3. 

Every such association shall represent either a stated 
section of the country, or a stated number of schools 



LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. lOI 

and colleges, and in each case its stated limits shall 
necessarily exciude to that extent the stated limits of 
every other association. 



SECTION 4. 



PROPOSITIONS Propositions for membership must be 
MEMBERSHIP, madc in writing to the Executive Commit- 
tee, hereinafter provided for, with the name and 
address of the applicant, and signed by the Secretary 
of the club or association making the proposal. Where 
the applicant is an association, the names and addresses 
Ox' each of its members shall be given with the applica- 
tion, together with a statement of the limits that it 
desires to represent, and thereafter such association, if 
elected, shall notify the Secretary of the National Asso- 
ciation of any changes in its membership immediately 
upon occurrence* 



SECTION 5. 
ADMISSIONS The Executive Committee shall have full 

TO 

MEMBERSHIP. pQwcr to pass upon candidates for member- 
ship without a general election, except that no associa- 
tion shall be deemed a member whose limits shall con- 
flict with those of other associations until its admittance 
be confirmed by a two-thirds vote at the annual meeting 
of the National Association or by the consent of the 
associations upon whose limits it encroaches. The 
admittance to membership of such an association 
necessarily decreases the limits of other associations to 
such an extent as shall preclude a conflict of limits. 



102 lAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

SECTION 6. 

ANNUAL DUES. Xlic aniiual dues to this Association, in 
the case of clubs, shall be seven dollars ($7), and in the 
case of associations of clubs, shall be twenty-five dollars 
($25), except that where any association is composed of 
more than ten clubs, its annual dues shall in addition 
be ten dollars ($10) for every five clubs or fraction 
thereof members of it so additional. No club or asso- 
ciation shall be allowed the privileges of a member 
until its first annual dues have been paid. All dues for 
the ensuing year shall be payable at the annual 
meeting. 

SECTION 7. 
PENALTY FOR Any club or association which shall fail 

NON-PAYMENT •' 

OF DUES. to have paid its annual dues at the expira- 
tion of one month after the annual meeting may be 
debarred from the privileges of a member by the 
Executive Committee, and, at their discretion, may be 
dropped from the roll. 

SECTION 8. 

RESIGNATIONS. Any mcmbcr wishing to resign must do 
so in writing, addressed to the Secretary ; and the re- 
signation cannot be accepted until all dues are paid. 

ARTICLE III. 

EXPULSIONS. The Executive Committee of this Asso- 
ciation, hereinafter provided for, shall have the power 
to suspend or expel any member which may neglect or 
refuse a strict and honorable compliance with this 



LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. IO3 

Constitution, By-Laws, etc., or which shall, by scandal- 
ous conduct, bring reproach or disgrace upon the 
Association ; or which shall, being itself an association, 
retain as one of its members any club objected to by 
notice in writing by the Executive Committee, subject 
to a right of the said member to appeal to the Associa- 
tion, at its next annual meeting, for reinstatement. 

ARTICLE IV. 

SECTION I. 

OFFICERS. The officers of this Association shall con- 

MUST BE ^ 

ACTIVE sist of a President, Vice-President, Secre- 

MEMBERS. ' ' 

tary. Treasurer, and an Executive Commit- 
tee of nine members, including the President, the Vice- 
President, the Secretary, and the Treasurer, who shall 
be ex-officio members of the Committee. No person 
can be an officer who is not an active member of a 
club belonging either directly to this Association, or 
indirectly as specified in Article II., Section 2. 

SECTION 2. 
HOW AND Xhe election of officers shall be by ballot 

WHEN '' 

ELECTED. or roll call at the annual meeting in each 

year. They shall be voted for separately, and receive 
a majority of all votes cast to entitle them to an 
election ; and they shall continue in office for one year, 
or until their successors shall be elected. 

SECTION 3. 
VACANCIES. In case a vacancy should occur in any of 

HOW FILLED. •' -' 

the offices, the Executive Committee shall 
elect a member to fill the vacancy for the unexpired term. 



104 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

SECTION 4. 
DUTIES OF It shall be the duty of the President to 

PRESIDENT. •' 

preside at all meetings, to preserve order, 
to appoint all committees not otherwise provided for, 
and to see that the officers and committees perform 
their respective duties. 

SECTION 5. 
DUTIES OF The Vice-President shall assist the Presi- 

VICE- 

pREsiDENT. dent in the performance of his duties, and 
shall exercise all the powers of the President in his 
absence. 

SECTION 6. 
DUTIES OF Xhe Secretary shall keep a roll of all the 

SECRETARY. -^ ^ 

members, and from time to time amend 
and correct the same as circumstances may require. 
He shall notify new members of their election within 
two weeks thereafter, and shall give notice of all 
meetings at least two weeks in advance. He shall 
conduct all the correspondence of the Association, and 
keep copies of all letters in a book provided for that 
purpose. He shall keep the minutes of the proceedings 
of the Association, and a record of such matters of 
interest as may occur. 

SECTION 7. 
DUTIES OF Xhe Treasurer shall keep in a suitable 

TREASURER. ^ 

book provided for that purpose an account 
of all moneys received and paid. He shall liquidate 
all bills against the Association, and shall report in 



LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. tO^ 

writing the state of the finances when required ; and 
at the annual meeting he shall present a written report 
showing all the receipts and expenditures for the year. 

SECTION 8. 



DUTIES AND 
POWERS OF 
EXECUTIVE 
COMITTEE. 



It shall be the duty of the Executive 
Committee to see that the general provisions 
of the Constitution and By-Laws of this 

Association are complied with by members of the 
same ; to hear and decide all questions submitted by 
members for decision, notice of hearing being given to 
any other member which may be affected by the ques- 
tion ; to construe and enforce all the rules of the 
Association. All decisions of the Executive Com- 
mittee shall be complied with forthwith, but an appeal 
therefrom may be taken by any member to the Asso- 
ciation at its next annual meetinfr. 



OFFICIAL Xhe Executive Committee and the Sec- 

NOTICES. 

retary shall cause official notices, and such 
other matters of information as they shall deem of 
interest, to be published in a paper to be appointed 
annually by the Executive Committee the official 
bulletin of the Association. All members are to be 
given notice of said appointment, and thereafter are 
expected to take notice of official publications therein. 



MANAGEMENT The Exccutlvc Committee shall have 

OF TOUR- 
NAMENTS, the arrangement and management of any 

general tournament between the members of this 

Association. 



Io6 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

"ex'ec"i^v°'' Each member of the Executive Com- 
coMMiTTEE. mlttce must represent a club of which he 
is an active member, said club belonging either directly 
to this Association, or indirectly as specified in Article 
II., Section 2, and being also either a different club, 
or, if a member of an association, then a club of a 
different association from any club represented by any 
other member of the Committee. 

QUORUM. A majority shall constitute a quorum. 



ARTICLE V. 

SECTION I. 
ANNUAL There shall be a stated annual meetinsf 

MEETING C> 

o"" held on a date to be fixed by the President, 

ASSOCIATION. J ' 

between the 1st and 15th of February in 
each year, at a place to be designated at the previous 
annual meeting, or by the President in the absence of 
other designation. 



SECTION 2. 



MEMBERS, ]\Iembers may be represented at mect- 

HOW •' *■ 

REPRESENTED? j^gs by dclcgatcs or proxies. 



SECTION 3. 



SPECIAL Special meetinq,s may be called by the 

MEETINGS. '■ . 

Executive Committee at any time, and shall 
be called by the Executive Committee at the request 
of any five members of the Association. 



LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 10/ 

SECTION 4. 

QUORUM. At all meetings of the Association the 

representatives of eleven members shall constitute a 
quorum. 

SECTION 5. 
NUMBER OF Eacli mcmber of the Association shall at 

VOTES 

TO WHICH all meetincrs be entitled to one vote if it be 

MEMBERS ARE ^ 

ENTITLED. ^ membcr in Class i, and it shall be entitled 
to two votes, and to one additional vote for every five 
clubs or fraction thereof members of it over ten, if it 
be a member in Class 2, the voce or votes to be cast 
by its delegates or proxies. 



DELEGATES Eacli dcleerate or proxy must be an active 

MUST BE 01-' 

ACTIVE member of a club belonging; either directly 

MEMBERS. ^ . 

to this Association, or indirectly as specified 
in Article II., Section 2, and present written creden- 
tials properly certified by the member he represents. 

ARTICLE VI. 

AMENDMENTS Amcndmcuts to this Constitution may 
be made at any annual meeting by a vote of 
at least two thirds of all the votes cast. By-laws may 
be amended at any annual or special meeting under 
the same provisions. 



BY-LAWS. 



ARTICLE I. 

SECTION I. 
ORDER OF The order of business for this Association 

BUSINESS. 1 11 1 

shall be as follows : 

1. Roll Call. 

2. Reading of Minutes. 

3. Secretary's Report. 

4. Collection of Dues. 

5. Teasurer's Report. 

6. Reports of Committee. 

7. Elections. 

8. Miscellaneous Business. 

9. Adjournment. 

SECTION 2. 
OFFICERS The election of ofificers at the annual 

WHEN 

ELECTED. meeting shall take place immediately after 

the reading of the reports of the various officers and 
committees. 



TO TAKE The officers elected shall immediately 

OFFICE _ "' 

IMMEDIATELY, entcr upon the discharge of their respective 
duties, and be entitled to the possession of all books, 
papers, moneys and other property belonging to the 
Association pertaining to their respective officers, and 
in the possession of their predecessors. 



LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. IO9 

SECTION 3. 
cusHiNG-s Por the " Rules of Order," and any and 

MANUAL. -' 

all parliamentary rules not herein men- 
tioned, those laid down in '' Cushing's Manual '' shall 
be authority. 

ARTICLE II. 
SECTION I. 
LAWS OF Asso- All clubs rcDrescnted in this Association 

CIATION ^ 

^^cLUBs""^ shall be governed by the laws of Lawn 
Tennis as laid down by this Association. 



SECTION 2. 

All matches played by clubs represented in this 
Association shall be played under all the rules adopted 
by it. 

AMATEURS Nonc but amateurs shall be allowed to 

ONLY TO PLAY 

IN MATCHES, entcr for any match or matches played under 
the auspices of this Association. 



AMATEURS An amatcuT is one who has never played 

DEFINED. ^ ^ 

or taught any sport as one of his ordinary 
means of livelihood or in connection therewith, and 
this queston in any given case is to be decided by the 
Executive Committee of the National Association. 

SECTION 5. 
MATCHES. WHO No playcr shall be allowed to enter for 

MAY ENTER ^ "^ 

any match given by this Association unless 
he is an active member in a club belonging either di- 
rectly to this Association or indirectly as specified in 



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Article II., Section 2, of the Constitution. But the 
Executive Committee is empowered, at their discretion, 
to invite any foreigners to enter for any match given 
by this Association. 

ARTICLE III. 

SUSPENSION Any article or section of these By-Laws 

BY-LAWS. lyiay be suspended for any one meeting by 
a two-thirds vote of all cast. 



RULES AS ADOPTED 

BY THE 

UNITED STATES NATIONAL LAWN 
TENNIS ASSOCIATION. 

THE COURT. 



I. The court is 78 feet long and 27 feet wide. It iu 
divided across the middle by a net, the ends of whi 1 
are attached to two posts, A and B, standing three feet 
outside of the court on either side. The height of the 
net is 3 feet 6 inches at the posts, and 3 feet in the 
middle. At each end of the court, parallel with the net, 
and 39 feet from it, are drawn the base lines, D E and 
F G, the ends of which are connected by the side lines, 
D F and E G. Half way between the side lines, and 
parallel with them, is drawn the half court line, I H, 
dividing the space on each side of the net into two 
equal parts, the right and left courts. On each side of 
the net, at a distance of 21 feet from it, and parallel 
with it, are drawn the service lines, K L and M N. 

78 
B 



^ T 



G 


N 


L 


E 


18 




21 


18 


2T 




F !\ 


I 


1 


C D 



H 



39 



A 



39 



112 LAWN TENNIS IX AMERICA. 



THE BALLS. 

2. The balls shall measure not less than 2jf inches, 
nor more than 2^ inches in diameter ; and shall weigh 
not less than ii| oz., nor more than 2 oz. 

THE GAME. 

3. The choice of sides, and the right to serve in the 
first game, shall be decided by toss ; provided that 
if the winner of the toss choose the right to serve, the 
other player shall have choice of sides, and vice versa. 
If one player choose the court, the other may elect not 
to serve. 

4. The players shall stand on opposite sides of the 
net ; the player who first delivers the ball shall be called 

/the server, and the other the striker-out. 

5. At the end of the first game the striker-out shall 
become server, and the server shall become striker-out ; 
and so on alternately in all the subsequent games of the 
set, or series of sets. 

6. The server shall serve with one foot on the base 
line or perpendicularly above said line, and with the 
other foot behind said line, but not necessarily upon 
the ground. He shall deliver the service from the 
right to the left courts, alternately, beginning from the 
right. 

7. The ball served must drop between the service 
line, half court line, and side line of the court, diago- 
nally opposite to that from which it was served. 

8. It is a fault if the server fail to strike the ball, or 
if the ball served drop in the net or beyond the service 




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line, or out of court, or in the wrong court ; or if the 
server does not stand as directed by law 6. 

9. A ball falling on a line is regarded as falling in the 
court bounded by that line. 

10. A fault cannot be taken. 

11. After a fault the server shall serve again from the 
same court from which he served that fault, unless it 
was a fault because he served from the wrong court. 

12. A fault cannot be claimed after the next service 
is delivered. 

13. The server shall not serve till the striker-out is 
ready. If the latter attempt to return the service he 
shall be deemed ready. 

14. A service or fault delivered when the striker-out 
is not ready counts for nothing. 

15. The service shall not be volleyed or taken before 
it has touched the ground, 

16. A ball is in play on leaving the server's racket, 
except as provided for in law 8. 

17. It is a good return, although the ball touch the 
net ; but a service, otherwise good, which touches the 
net shall count for nothing. 

18. The server wins a stroke if the striker-out volley 
the service, or if he fail to return the service or the 
ball in play ; or if he return the service or the ball in 
play so that it drops outside of his opponent's court ; 
or if he otherwise lose a stroke, as provided by law 
20. 

19. The striker-out wins a stroke if the server serve 
two consecutive faults ; or if he fail to return the ball in 
play ; or if he return the ball in play so that it drops 
outside of his opponent's court ; or if he otherwise lose 
a stroke as provided by law 20, 



114 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

20. Either player loses a stroke if the ball touch him 
or anything that he wears or carries, except his racket 
in the act of striking ; or if he touch the ball with his 
racket more than once ; or if he touch the net or any of 
its supports while the ball is in play ; or if he volley the 
ball before it has passed the net. 

21. In case any player is obstructed by any accident, 
the ball shall be considered a let. 

22. On either player winning his first stroke, the 
score is called 15 for that player; on either player 
winning his second stroke, the score is called 30 for that 
player ; on either player winning his third stroke, the 
score is called 40 for that player ; and the fourth stroke 
won by either player is scored game for that player, 
except as below : If both players have won three 
strokes, the score is called deuce ; and the next stroke 
'won by either player is scored advaiitage for that player. 
If the same player wins the next stroke, he wins the 
game; if he loses the next stroke, the score returns to 
deuce ; and so on until one player wins the two strokes 
immediately following the score of deuce, when game 
is scored for that player. 

23. The player who first wins six games wins the set, 
except as below : If both players win five games, the 
score is called games all ; and the next game won by 
either player is scored advantage game for that player. ^ 
If the same player wins the next game he wins the set ; 
if he loses the next game, the score returns to games 
all ; and so on, until either player wins the two games 
immediately following the score of games all, when 
he wins the set. But individual clubs, at their own 
tournaments, may modify this rule at their discre- 
tion. 



LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 11$ 

24. The players shall change sides at the end of every 
set ; but the umpire, on appeal from either player, 
before the toss for choice, may direct the players to 
change sides at the end of every game of each set if, in 
his opinion, either side have a distinct advantage owing 
to the sun, wind, or any other accidental cause ; but if 
the appeal be made after the toss for choice, the umpire 
can only direct the players to change sides at the end 
of every game of the odd or deciding set. 

25. When a series of sets is played, the player who 
served in the last game of one set shall be striker-out in 
the first game of the next. 

26. In all contests the play shall be continuous from 
the first service till the match be concluded ; but upon 
application by either player, for reasons which shall 
seem adequate to the referee, an interval which shall 
not exceed two minutes may be allowed between suc- 
cessive rests, and between successive sets seven minutes 
may be allowed. The referee, in his discretion, may at 
any time postpone the match on account of rain or 
darkness, or may otherwise waive the provisions of this 
rule on the expressed consent of both players. In any 
case of postponement the previous score shall hold good. 
Where play has ceased for more than one hour, the 
player who at the cessation thereof was on the side of 
the net originally first chosen shall have the choice of 
sides on the resumption of play. He shall stay on the 
side he chooses for the remainder of the set, and then 
alternate each subsequent set. The last two sentences 
of this rule do not apply when the players are changing 
every game. 

27. The above laws shall apply to the three-handed 
and four-handed games, except as below : 



ii6 



LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 



THE THREE-HANDED AND FOUR-HANDED GAMES. 

A 

D 



K 








L 







M 








N 



B 



28. For the three-handed and four-handed games the 
court shall be 36 feet in width ; 4^ feet inside the side 
lines, and parallel with them are drawn the service side 
lines, K M and L N. The service lines are not drawn 
beyond the point at which they meet the service lines, 
as shown in the diagram. 

29. In the three-handed game, the single player shall 
serve in every alternate game. 

30. In the four-handed game, the pair who have the 
right to serve in the first game shall decide which partner 
shall do so; and the opposing pair shall decide in like 
manner for the second game. The partner of the player 
who served in the first game shall serve in the third, 
and the partner of the player who served in the second 
game shall serve in the fourth, and the same order shall 
be maintained in all the subsequent games of the set. 

31. At the beginning of the next set, either partner 
of the pair which struck out in the last game of the last 
set may serve ; and the same privilege is given to their 
opponents in the second game of the new set. 

32. The players shall take the service alternately 



LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. II/ 

throughout the game ; a player cannot receive a service 
deHvered to his partner; and the order of service and 
striking out once estabHshed shall not be altered, nor 
shall the striker-out change courts to receive the service, 
till the end of the set. 

33. If a player serve out of his turn, the umpire, as 
soon as the mistake is discovered by himself or by one 
of the players, shall direct the player to serve who ought 
to have served. But all strokes scored and any fault 
served before such discovery shall be reckoned. If a 
game shall have been completed before such discovery, 
then the service in the next alternate game shall be 
delivered by the partner of the player who served out of 
his turn, and so on in regular rotation. 

34. It is a fault if the ball served do not drop between 
the service line, half-court line, and service side line of 
the court, diagonally opposite to that from which it was 
served. 

35. It is a fault if the ball served does not drop 
as provided in law 34, or if it touches the server's 
partner or anything he wears or carries. 

36. In matches, the decision of the umpire shall be 
final. Should there be two umpires, they shall divide 
the court between them, and the decision of each shall 
be final in his share of the court. 

ODDS. 

37. A bisque is one point which can be taken by the 
receiver of the odds at any time in the set except as 
follows : 

(a.) A bisque cannot be taken after a service is 
delivered. 



Il8 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

[d.) The server may not take a bisque after a fault, 
but the striker-out may do so. 

38. One or more bisques may be given to increase or 
diminish other odds. 

39. Half fifteen is one stroke given at the beginning 
of the second, fourth, and every subsequent alternate 
game of a set. 

40. Fifteen is one stroke given at the beginning of 
every game of a set. 

41. Half thirty is one stroke given at the beginning 
of the first game, two strokes given at the beginning of 
the second game, and so on alternately in all the subse- 
quent games of the set. 

42. Thirty is two strokes given at the beginning of 
every game of the set. 

43. Half forty is two strokes given at the beginning of 
the first game, three strokes given at the beginning of 
the second game, and so on alternately in all the sub- 
sequent games of the set. 

44. Forty is three strokes given at the beginning of 
every game of a set. 

45. Half court : The players may agree into which 
half-court, right or left, the giver of the odds shall play ; 
and the latter loses a stroke if the ball returned by him 
drop outside any of the lines which bound that half 
court. 

46. Owed odds are where the giver of the odds starts 
behind scratch. 

47. Owe half fifteen is one stroke owed at the begin- 
ning of the first, third, and every subsequent alternate 
game of a set. 

48. Owe fifteen is one stroke owed at the beginning 
of every game of a set. 



LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. I IQ 

49. Owe half thirty is two strokes owed at the be- 
ginning of the first game, one stroke owed at the be- 
ginning of the second game, and so on alternately in all 
the subsequent games of the set. 

50. Owe thirty is two strokes owed at the beginning 
of every game of a set. 

51. Owe half forty is three strokes owed at the be- 
ginning of the first game, two strokes owed at the 
beginning of the second game, and so on alternately in 
all subsequent games of the set. 

52. Owe forty is three strokes owed at the beginning 
of every game of a set. 



LIST OF MEMBERS 

OF THE 

U. S. National Lawn Tennis Association, 

April, 1889. 



officers of the association. 

Joseph S. Clark, President, Young America Cricket 
Club, 139 South Fourth street, Philadelphia, Pa. 

H. W. Slocum, Jr., Vice-President, St, George's Cricket 
Club, Garfield Building, Brooklyn. 

Valentine G. Hall, Secretary, Edgewood Lawn Tennis 
Club, 1 1 West 37th street, N. Y. City. 

Howard A. Taylor, Treasurer, Country Club of West- 
chester County, 280 Broadway, N. Y. City. • 

R. D. Sears, F. P. MacLean, A. B. Starey, E. H. Outer- 
bridge, C. E. Stickney, Executive Committee. 

CLASS L 

Belmont Cricket Club — Milton C. Work, Secretaiy, 
623 Walnut street, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Bergen Point Athletic Club — F. Day Voorhees, Sec- 
retary, P. O. Box 65, Bergen Point, N. J. 

Berkeley Athletic Club — J. Clark Read, Secretary, 
19 W. 44th street. New York City. 

Bridgeport Lawn Tennis Club — Frank Slawson, Sec- 
retary, 354 Main street, Bridgeport, Conn. 

Brooklyn Heights Tennis Club — F. J. Phillips, Sec- 
retary, 98 Joralemon street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



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Brooklyn Hill Tennis Club — Remsen Johnson, Secre- 
tary, i68 Hancock street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Buffalo Tennis Club — E. P. Cottle, 424 Main street, 
Buffalo, N. Y. ' 

California Lawn Tennis Club — E. N. Bee, Secretary, 
208 California street, San Francisco, Cal. 

Cheyenne Lawn Tennis Club — Lockwood Hebard. 
Secretary, Cheyenne, Wyoming. 

Chicago Tennis Club — J. G. Jenks, Secretary, 2960 
Groveland avenue, Chicago, 111. 

Chestnut Hill Lawn Tennis Club — Miss Ruth Coit, 
Secretary, Chestuut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Cleveland Lawn Tennis Club — H. E. Cook, Secretary, 
60 Woodland Court, Cleveland, Ohio. 

Clifton Tennis and Base Ball Club — Miss A. T. Ripley, 
Secretary, Rose Bank, P. 0» Staten Island. 

Columbia College L. T. Association — O. S. Campbell, 
Secretary, 18 Remsen street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Colorado Springs Lawn Tennis Club — G. A. Macklin, 
Secretary, P. O. Box 44, Colorado Springs, Col. 

Country Club of Westchester Co. — E. Haight, Secre- 
tary, 26 Broad street. New York City. 

Country Club of Maryland — F. P. MacLean, Secre- 
tary, 1 5 19 Rhode Island avenue, Washington, D. C. 

Crescent Lawn Tennis Club — H. M. Williams, Secre- 
tary, Box 320, Mount Vernon, N. Y. 

Danbury Lawn Tennis Club — Granville Whittlesey, 
Secretary, Danbury, Conn. 

Dayton Lawn Tennis Club — E. H. Bunstine, Secre- 
tary, III East Third street, Dayton, O. 

Delaware Field Club — E. H. Gayley, Secretary, 7th 
and Market streets, Wilmington, Del. 



122 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

Denver Lawn Tennis Club — H. Sybrant Van Schaick, 
Secretary, 419 14th street, Denver, Col. 

East Orange Lawn Tennis Club — J. C. McCoy, Sec- 
retary, East Orange, New Jersey. 

Edgewood Club of Tivoli-on-Hudson — C. L. Clark- 
son, Secretary, 55 Liberty street, New York City. 

Elmwood Lawn Tennis Club — W. H. Wing, Secre- 
tary, 10 South Water street. Providence, R. L 

Englewood Field Club — Edgar H. Booth, Secretary, 
1 1 Wall street, New York City. 

Flushing Athletic Club— ^Henry K. Oilman, Secretary, 
Flushing, Long Island. 

Germantown Cricket Club — F. AI. Bissell, Secretary, 
243 South Fourth street, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Harlem Lawn Tennis Club — Wm. Stewart, Secretary, 
78 Franklin street, New York City, N. Y. 

Harrisburg Outdoor Club — Geo. E. Etter, Secretary, 
212 Walnut street, Harrisburg, Pa. 

Harvard University L. T. Ass'n. — S. \\^ Sturgis, Sec- 
retary, 47 Matthews, Cambridge, Mass. 

Kenwood Lawn Tennis Club — Henry M. Lane, Sec- 
retary, 286 48th streetj Chicago, 111. 

Knickerbocker Lawn Tennis L"lub — Clifford Allen, 
Secretary, 404 Market street, St. Louis, Mo. 

Lenox Club — Hamilton Kuhn, Secretary, Lenox, 
Mass. 

Litchfield Lawn Club — Harry W. Wessels, Secretary, 
Litchfield, Conn. 

Longwood Cricket Club — Lott Mansfield, Secretary, 
280 Dartmouth street, Boston, Mass. 

Meadow Club of Southampton — E. W. Humphreys, 
Secretary, 54 Exchange Place, N. Y. City, N. Y. 



LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 1 23 

Merion Cricket Club — Edward S. Sayres, Secretary, 
217 South Third street, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Minnesota Lawn Tennis Club — Geo. L. Wood, Secre- 
tary, Merchants National Bank, St. Paul, Minn. 

Monmouth Lawn Tennis Club — John A. Faroot, Sec- 
retary, Keyport, N. J. 

Montclair Tennis Club — James S. Porter, Secretary, 
Montclair, N. J. 

Morristown Lawn Tennis C'lub — Gilbert P. Bullock, 
Secretary, Morristown, N. J. 

Nahant Sporting Club — Jas. Dwight, Secretary, 
Somerset Club, Boston, Mass. 

Narragansett Lawn Tennis Club — Lloyd Saltus, Sec- 
retary, Narragansett Casino, R. L 

New Haven Lawn Club — Dr. W. G. Dagget, Secre- 
tary, cor. College and Crown streets, New Haven, Ct. 

New Hamburgh Lawn Tennis Club — C. E. Sands, 
Secretary, 385 Fifth avenue, New York City. 

Newport Tennis Club — W. Watts, Sherman, Secre- 
tary, Newport, R. L 

New York Tennis Club — J. F. Hobart, Secretary, 725 
St. Nicholas avenue. New York City, N. Y. 

New York Athletic Club — Otto Ruhl, Secretary, 104 
West 55th street, New York City, N. Y. 

North Shore Tennis Club — W. Y. Wemple, Secretary, 
New Brighton, Staten Island. 

Nutley Field Club — H. G. Prout, Secretary, 73 Broad- 
way, New York City, N. Y. 

Orange Lawn Tennis Club — S. M. Colgate, Secretary, 
55 John street. New York City, N. Y. 

Orange Athletic Club — W. O. Wiley, Secretary, 15 
Halsted street, East Orange, N. J. 



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Passaic Lawn Tennis Club — F. A. Marsellus, Secretary, 
Passaic, N. J. 

Philadelphia Cricket Club — G. Remak, Jr., Secretary, 

1 20 South Sixth street, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Pittsburg Cricket Club — Charles S. Clark, Secretary, 
Penn and Dallas avenue, Pittsburg, Pa. 

Portland Lawn Tennis Club — S. C. Fox, Secretary, 

121 Emery street, Portland, Me. 

Powelton Lawn Tennis Club — W. Cook Belknap, Sec- 
retary, Newburg, N. Y. 

Princeton College Lawn Tennis Association — P.. E. 
Speer, Secretary, P. O. Box 385, Princeton, N. J. 

Ridgefield Athletic Club — William Bruce, Secretary, 
New York State National Bank, Albany, N. Y. 

Rochester Tennis Club — Howard L. Osgood, Secre- 
tary, 31 State street, Rochester, N. Y. 

Rockaway Hunting Club — Middleton S. Burrill, Sec- 
retary, 21 Broad street. Mills Building, N. Y. 

Scarsdale Lawn Tennis Club — C. C. Fleming, Secre- 
tary, Second Nat. Bank, 190 Fifth avenue, N. Y. 

Seabright Lawn Tennis and Cricket Club — F. J. Al- 
lien, Secretary, i Broadway, New York City, N. Y. 

Springfield Tennis Company — W. F. Callender, Sec- 
retary, Springfield, Mass. 

St. Augustine Tennis Club — G. S. Smith, Secretary, 
336 Beacon street, Boston. 

Staten Island Cricket and Baseball Club — R. St. George 
Walker, Secretary, 53 Beaver street, N. Y. 

Staten Island Ladies' Club. — Mrs. Geo. L. Upshur, 
Secretary, New Brighton, S. I. 

St. George's Cricket Club — Walter Trimble, Secretary, 
160 Broadway, New York City. 



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Summit Lawn Tennis Club — W. A. E. Doying, Sec- 
retary, Summit, N. J. 

Tioga Athletic Association — J. C. Steelman, Secre- 
tary, 2208 Hunting Park, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Trinity College Lawn Tennis Club — G. M. Brinley, 
Secretary, 16 Seabury Hall, Trinity Coll., Hartford, 
Conn. 

Twenty-third Regiment Tennis Club — J. W. Ray- 
mond, Secretary, 7 Wall street. New York City. 

Tuxedo Club — William Kent, Secretary, 59 Liberty 
street, New York City. 

Veneta Lawn Tennis Club — Harry S. Snyder, Secre- 
tary, 150 Church street, Bethlehem, Pa. 

Waterbury Lawn Tennis Club — C. E. Hunger, Secre- 
tary, Waterbury, Conn. 

Wedgmere Tennis Club — C. H. Tyler, Secretary, Win- 
chester, Mass. 

West End Lawn Tennis Club — Henry C. Snow, Pres- 
ident, 27 Newberry street, Boston, Mass. 

Yale University Lawn Tennis Association — E. L. Par- 
sons, Secretary, 280 Lawrence, New Haven, Conn. 

Young America Cricket Club — L R. Davis, Secretary, 
257 South 4th street, Philadelphia, Pa. 

CLASS H. 

Hudson River Lawn Tennis Association — Dr. G. W. 
Murdock, Secretary, Cold Springs On-the-Hudson, New 
York. 



FIXTURES FOR 1889. 



Flushing Athletic Club, June 3d and following days. 

St. George's Cricket Club, championship of the Middle 
States, June loth, and following days. 

Philadelphia Cricket Club, ladies' championship, June 
nth, and following days. 

Hudson River Lawn Tennis Association, open to 
members thereof, June i/th, and following days. 

New Haven Lawn Tennis Club, championship of New 
England, June 17th, and following days. 

Orange Lawn Tennis Club, June 24th, and following 
days. 

Championship of the United States Doubles, Staten 
Island, July ist, and following days. 

Chicago Tennis Club, championship of the Westerr 
States, July ist, and following days. 

California Lawn Tennis Club, championship of the 
Pacific Coast, July 4th, and following days. 

Englewood Field Club, July 8th, and following days. 

Springfield Tennis Company, July 15th, and following 
days. 

Meadow Club of Southampton, championship of Long 
Island, July 22d, and following days. 

Wright and Ditson's Annual Lawn Tennis Tourna- 
ment, July 29th, and following days. 

Mount Desert and Bar Harbor Lawn Tennis Tourna- 
ment, August 5th, and following days. 



128 LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. 

Nahant Sporting Club, Invitation, August 5th, and 
following days. 

Narragansett Lawn Tennis Club, August 12th, and 
following days. 

Championship Singles of America, Newport, R. I., 
Wednesday, August 21st, and following days. 

Lenox Lawn Tennis Club, Livitation, September 2d, 
and following days. 

Rochester Tennis Club, September 9th, and following 
days. 

Washington Lawn Tennis Club, Southern Champion- 
ship, September i6th, and following days. 

Inter-Collegiate, L. T. C, October 6th, and following 
days. 

A^. B. — In arranging the above fixtures, Monday, the 
second day of the week, has been given. It may be 
possible that the tournament will not commence until 
Wednesday, of this week, in which case the above fix- 
tures will be slightly altered. 



INDEX. 



INDEX. 



PAGB 

Biographical Sketches i 

Beeckman R. Livingston, 2 

Brinley, G. M., 7 

Bar Harbor Open Tournament 39 

Belmont Cricket Club Tournament, 48 

Bagnall-Wild System, 95 

Campbell, Oliver S. 2 

Clark, Joseph S., 4 

Chase, Charles A., 7 

Cracks, Among Other 8 

Country Club Invitation, 20 

Chestnut Hill, 21 

Chicago Open Tournament 28 

Central New York Championship, . . . . . .45 

Championship, 1888, 60 

Championships, American, , . 71 

Court Tennis Championship of U. S 91 

Constitution and By-Laws U. S. N. L. T. A., . . . 99 

Clubs Belonging to U. S. N. L. T. A 120 

DwiGHT, James 4 

Delaware Field Club Tournament, 46 

Doubles, Championship of America, 49 

Decline of the Double Game, 72 

Directions and Rules for Playing, 11 1 

Englewood Open Tournament, 29 

Elberon Casino Invitation, 31 

Flushing Athletic Club, 20 

Fixtures for 1889, 127 

Hall, Valentine G 6 

Hudson Rivgr Association CuampionskiFi . . , 5a 



INDEX. 



Hints on the Management of Tournaments, 
Handicapping, Rules for 



Inter-Collegiate Tournament, 
Knotty Points, 



PAGE 

6i 
93 

54 

85 



Lenox Open Tournament, 47 

MacMullen, E. p., 3 

Mansfield, Fred., 7 

MoNTCLAiR Open Tournament 27 

Meadow Club, Southampton, 32 

New Haven Championship, New England, ... 24 

Nahant Invitation Tournament 37 

Narragansett Pier Open Tournament 37 

New Hamburgh Invitation Tournament 50 

New York Lawn T. C. Open Tournament, ... 51 



Orange Open Tournament, 
Post, A. H. S., 



Rank of Players in '85 

Rank of Players in '86 

Rank of Players in '87, .... 
RocKAWAY Hunting Club Tournament, 
Rhode Island TournaxMent Championship, 
Ranking of Players for 1888, 
Review of the Season in England, 



Sears, Richard, U., 

Slocum, Henry W., Jr., . 

Sears, Philip S., 

Sands, Charles E., 

Shaw, Quincy A., Jr., 

St. George's Cricket Club, 
Singles : Championship of America, . 
Seabright Cricket Club Open Tournament, 
Staten Island Athletic Club Tournament, 
Southern States Championship, 
Something About Amateurs, 



26 



II 

13 

18 

32 
48 

77 
79 

I 
I 

5 
6 
6 

23 
40 

44 
44 

53 
67 



INDEX. 

PAGE 

St. Augustine Tennis Tournament, 88 

Taylor, Howard A., 3 

Thacher, William L 5 

Tournaments of '85 — Summary, 10 

Tournaments of '86 — Summary, 11 

Tournaments of '87— Summary 15 

Tournaments of '88, n^ 

Tennis Building Association ig 

Toronto Championship of Canada 46 

Tournament Winners for '88, 57 

Umpires, Rules for, . . ' 96 

Victories of Richard D. Sears, 75 

Wellesley Open Tournament, 30 

Wright and Ditson's Open Tournament, .... 35 

Winnipeg Open Tournament, 40 




Though comparatively a new thing here, the Pajama is as 
great a favorite in this country as in India, where it originated. 
For travehng at night on sleeping cars and steamboats, or for 
long voyages, it is just what is needed. A man is ready to turn 
into bed and yet he is fully dressed. For poor sleepers who find 
it necessary at times to read at night the Pajama is a welcome 
garment. We have it in flannels, silks, cheviots, etc. All the 
patterns are very pleasing to the eyC;, and there is quite a num- 
ber of them. 



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MENS' OUTKITTKRS, 
128, 130, 132 FULTON STREET, 87 NASSAU STREET, 

Send 5c. stamp for illustrated Catalogue. 



D. W. Granbery & Co. 

189 BROADWAY, N. Y. 

MAKERS OF 

I-yAWN TPennis GpODS. 

THE HIGH STANDARD OF FINISH OF ALL OUR 
RACKETS, THE EXTRA GRADE OF MATERIAL USED IN 
THEIR MANUFACTURE, AS WELL AS THEIR PLAYING 
AND WEARING QUALITIES, WILL COMMEND THEM TO 
PLAYERS WHO DESIRE A GOOD ARTICLE. 

THEIR SUPERIORITY WILL BE DEMONSTRATED BY 
A COMPARISON WITH OTHERS OF ENGLISH OR AMER- 
ICAN MAKE. 

THE "ASSOCIATION/' 



The Best 




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Racket Made. 



Strung with extra quality gut, made specially for this 
Racket in England, 

It has been endorsed by the following leading players : 



R. D. Sears, 

E. P. McMULLEN, 

Jos. S. Clark, 
Clarence Hobart, 
J. W. Raymond, 
Chas. a. Chase, 

F. L. V. HorpiN, 



O. S. Campbell, 
A. E. Wright, 
A. W. Post, 
M. F. Prosser, 
R. V. Beach, 
F. G. Beach, 
Carroll J. Post, 

AND MANY OTHERS 



Valentine G. Hall, 
Deane Miller, 
J. T. Pope, 
G. M. Brinley, 
Oscar Woodward, 
C. L. McCawley, 
F. P. Maclean, 



Price $7-50 

Discount to Club Members 20 per cent, on Rackets only. 



D. W. GRAIVBERY & CO. 



Discount to Club Members 20 per cent, on Rackets only. 

The ^'AMERICAN," same as the Association but strung 
with extra quality American Gut $6,00 

The ''COLUMBIA," similar in shape to the Association, 
strung with red and white gut 5-5o 

The "ALBANY," triangular shape, beveled frame. 5 .50 

The *' WINGFIELD," Association model 4.50 

The '' MANHATTAN," " " 3 . 25 

No. 22 $2.50. No. 21 1.25 

NETS.-ALL HAND MADE. 

o. — 27x3, 12 thread, $1.25 3. — 36x3, 15 thread, $2.00 

1.-27x3, 15 '' 1.50 4.-42x3, " 2.50 

2.-33x3, " 1-75 6.-42x3,21 " 3.50 

Any of the above with canvas binding extra 0.75 

7. — 42x3, 21 thread. Club Net, double center, where ordinary 

nets wear out first, canvas bound, $5 . 00 

POLES. No. I, jointed per pair, i . 25 

No. 2, " " 2.00 

A. Single piece " i . 00 

B. " '' 1.75 

Guy Ropes, Runners, and Pegs per set 50 

Balls, Markers, Racket Covers, Etc., Etc. 

S£JVjD for catalogue, 
"the association tennis book of eules and points," 

Containing Rules, Directions for Playing, Points for Umpires, 

Directions for Holding Tournaments, etc. By mail, 10 cents. 

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Our New American Tate. 

Modelled on the lines of the famous English 
Racket, costing $15.00 to import. Was first pre- 
sented last season. It is said, by the best Tennis 
Players in the country to be Better than its English 
rival in all that makes a racket desirable — that is, 
in Balance, Strength, Stringing and Finish. 



CLOTHING. 

We are Headquarters for Tennis, Yachting, 

Cricket and Base Ball Suits. 

Made to order from the finest English and Domestic 
Flannels in the latest and most approved styles at 
lowest prices. 

We carry in stock a fine assortment of Silk, 
Satin, Cashmere, English and French 

Flannel Tennis Caps in a great variety of stripes and polka dots. 

Our Line of Sweaters, Jerseys, Tights, Running Trunks, 
Rowing Shirts, Blazes, Tennis Shirts and Pants is unsurpassed. 

Send for illustrated Catalogue of all Sporting Goods. 

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Are used by most of the crack players. 

Our 1889 Tennis Ball is warranted to be 
more lively and more durable than any other. 

Sample Ball, 35c.; 3 for $1.00; 6 for ^2.00. 
$4.00 per dozen. 

51 Beacon Street, Boston, May 14th, 1887. 
Messrs. Peck & Snyder : 

Gentlemen — 1 have given your "Beeckman" Racket a 
thorough test, and I am very pleased to say that I have 
never had a better racket of either English or American 
make. Yours truly, RICHARD D. SEARS. 

51 E. 30th St., May 26th, 1887. 
W. Irving Snyder, Esq. 

My Dear Sir — A fter having used your " Beeckman" 
racket for the past few months, it gives me great pleas- 
ure to say that I consider it superior to any racket either 
American or English, that I have ever used. Yours trulv, 

R. LIVINGSTON BEECKMAN. 

465 Clinton Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y., May i6th, 1887. 
Messrs. Peck & Snyder. 

I have played with your " Beeckman " racket for several months and take 
pleasure in informing you that it has given better satisfaction than any rack- 
et I have ever used. Yours truly, H. W. SLOCUM, Jr. 

1 889 Tennis Rules Free upon Application. 
Our New Spring Catalogue, 8,000 illustrations, by mail, 25c. 

PECK &. SNYDER, Manufacturers, 
126, 128 & 130 NASSAU STREET, HEW YORK. 



A. G. Spalding & Bros 

241 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. 
108 MADISON STREET, OHICAGO, ILL. 



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Lawn Tennis Rackets. 

The "SPECIAL SLOCUM " Racket, 

Strung with heavy English red gut, $7.00. 

The "SLOCUM," red and white gut, - - $6.00 

"SLOCUM, Jr.," white gut, - - - 4.00 

Windermere, 4.00 

Lakeside, 3.00 

Greenwood, 2.50 

Geneva, _-_.-.- 2.00 

Favorite, 1.50 

Complete Line of Tennis Goods. 



A. G. SPALDING & BROS. 

241 Broadway, New York. 1 OS Madison St., Chicago, 111. 



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WRIGHT & DITSON'S 

CELEBRATED 

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>^ I. REACH CO.'S BASE BALLS. 

NEW MAIL CYCLES. 

ANDREW GRAFF'S SPORTING SHOES. 

Chas. Daly Three-barrel Guns. 
Chas. Daly Hammerless Ejector Guns 

Marlin Repeating Rifles. 

A LARGE STOCK OF 

Fine Tennis Blazers, Shirts, Pants, Shoes, Caps, 

and Belts. 

FISHING TACKLE. 

SPORTING GOODS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. 

Schoverling, Daly & Gales, 

302 BROADWAY, 

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Market for the Season of 1889, a 
Racket of our own Design and 
Manufacture, viz : TJie *'MEIl- 
WIN, HULBEBT <§ CO. 
SPECIAL,^' which we believe to bj 
the finest Backet that has ei'er 
been placed on the market. The 
workmanship is of the highest grade 
and the material is of the best quality 
obtainable, suitable for ix-aking a 
very superior Backet, the wood- 
work is highly polished; it is strung 
with the best English Gut, which is 
larger in diameter than the American Gut, 
\hvis ^\mg increased strength. 

Weight from I2 to 14 oz., scratched 
cedar handles. To keep the handle from 
slipping, the scratching on the handles is 
coarser than ordinary which 
will be appreciated. 

We guarantee this Racket in every 
particular. 



Brice, post-paid 
With Cork Handles 



$7.00 
7.50 

Send for complete Catalogue, 210 pages, 
10x12 in,, by mail, post-paid, on receipt 
of 10 cents. 



Merwin, Hulbert & Co. 

26 West 23rd Street, (Opp. sthAve, Hotel) NEW YORK. 

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Superior Sporting Supplies. 

LAWN TEUNIS BATS Made to order and repaired at shortest notice. 
Gymnasium Suits, Sweaters, fencing, Sparring, Tennis, Bicycle and eowing Outfits, Etc., Etc. 

See our indoor running Shoes, made on special lasts, sprinting model shoe, best jhorse 
hide leather, ONLY $1.60 per pair. Send 2c. stamp for Illustrated Catalogue. 

II West 37th St., New York, 1889. 
J. R. JuDD, Esq* 

; Dear Sir—The "Hall" Bat which 
'you so kindly sent me seems an excellent 
one in every way. Valentine G. Hall. 




See our new Tate and Hall Bats. 
Tennis Shoes, Imported and Domestic 
of every description^ 



J. R. JUDD &. CO. 



lOlf 103 and 105 West 36th Street, 



NEW YOB 



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